Breeders’ Cup: Fair odds for $2 million Juvenile Fillies

Even though both of trainer Bob Baffert's two entries can win the Grade 2, $200000 Starlet Stakes, a Kentucky Oaks (G1) points prep Saturday at Los Alamitos, one makes more sense from a betting standpoint given her proven experience as a past stakes winner and two-turn route victor as well. Before revealing the more reliable Baffert filly to choose…

ARCADIA, CA - For your information, George Krikorian's unbeaten homebred Just F Y I (Justify) is the best 2-year-old filly in the country. Given a 7-1 chance while drawn widest of all in post 12 in Friday's GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies, she secured a beautiful spot from her outside draw and immediately took the race to 4-5 favorite and…

The Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies features a heavy favorite in Tamara, while favored Locked must deal with a fast-looking Bob Baffert-trained duo in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile. Robert Criscola offers analysis and betting picks for both heats. Photo By - USA TODAY Sports The Breeders' Cup odds for Future Stars Friday have been posted, and the races…

The 40th Breeders' Cup is 10 days away, so let's catch up on a couple notes of interest. Breeders' Cup entries will be drawn on October 30, but a pair of Todd Pletcher-trained superstars - Forte and Nest - won't be among the nearly 200 horses competing for a title. Pletcher, though, has several others in his stable that are capable of success.…

The Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies is a lucrative play for exotics. In the last 23 years, the favorite has won 11 times. In the last decade, the favorite won only twice but placed second through fourth five times. Breeders' Cup champions and the Kentucky Oaks The winner of the Juvenile Fillies is guaranteed to win year-end honors, but since 2000,…

Whether you like betting on favorites or longshots, the $2 million Grade 1 NetJets Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies is the perfect race to play. As counterintuitive as it might seem, it's a fact backed up by statistics. How can this be? It turns out North America's championship race for 2-year-old fillies is a haven for both short-priced favorites…

The Breeders' Cup is often referred to as the "World Championships of Horse Racing". The big day is less than a month away. In the lead up to the event Betting News will be taking a closer look at each division to help you do your homework for the 2023 event being held at Santa Anita Park. In the second installment of the Breeders' Cup previews we…

Aaron previews the 2023 Frizette Stakes (G1) from Belmont at the Big A, then gives his top picks & long shots from this "Win & You're In" for the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies. George Krikorian's second generation Kentucky homebred Just F Y I will look to back up a strong debut victory with another big effort in Saturday's Grade 1, $400000…

It's early in the season, but not too early to get excited about the group eyeing the GI Kentucky Oaks. In Wonder Wheel (Into Mischief) you have a standout 2-year-old and a deserving Eclipse champion. Hoosier Philly (Into Mischief) has so impressed trainer Tom Amoss that he said the GI Kentucky Derby is under consideration. Justique (Justify) has…

Just under a month after her showcase front-running victory in the Grade 1 Alcibiades Stakes at Keeneland, Wonder Wheel showed off a new trick at the same track on Friday, rallying from a ground-saving trip to win the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies. The daughter of Into Mischief veered out shortly after the break, to stay clear of And Tell Me…

Pletcher-trainee Atomically out for a breeze at Keeneland Wednesday morning. Coady Photography Breeders' Cup Notes/Edited LEXINGTON, Ky.-Trainer Todd Pletcher's 12 Breeders' Cup victories have come from nine races, but one race missing from that resume is the NetJets Juvenile Fillies (G1). He will have two chances to alter that statistic Friday…

Chop Chop out of the track Wednesday morning. Coady Photography Breeders' Cup Notes/Edited LEXINGTON, Ky.- Trainer Brad Cox will attempt to win his second Juvenile Fillies when he saddles Selective's Chop Chop as the 4-1 favorite. The City of Light filly is going off a very narrow loss to Wonder Wheel in the Alcibiades Stakes at Keeneland. "It was…

The best two-year-old dirt fillies in North America will square off over 1 1/16 miles in Friday's $2 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) at Keeneland, but the favorites aren't necessarily unbeatable. True, the Juvenile Fillies is stacked with talent. There have been four Grade 1 dirt races for two-year-old fillies contested this year, and…

As the likely starters became more clear, the international futures market for the Breeders' Cup did, too, in the final hours before Wednesday's announcement ofpre-entries. Flightline held firm Wednesday morning at 4-9 (minus 225) for the $6 million Classic onNov. 5 at Keeneland. So, too, did Nest stay put, at 6-5, for the $2 million…

For the most part, bettors do not need to adjust a whole lot to Keeneland and its version of the two-day Breeders' Cup series of races. Similar to Del Mar and Santa Anita Park, it uses a two-turn configuration for its dirt mile races, which might make the Dirt Mile feel a little different compared to when it runs at Churchill Downs. Otherwise,…

Ray Acevedo-USA TODAY Sports First look at some potential runners that could target the Kentucky Oaks in 2023 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies offers a purse of $2 million There is a competitive Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies set for Keeneland this year, as the winning runner will pick up points on the Road to the Kentucky Oaks. Below, you can find…

Inwhat might be racing's most competitive division, Nest maintained her position asthe futures favorite for the Breeders' Cup Distaff. But Malathaat is breathingdown her back. Afterboth Todd Pletcher-trained fillies won their races Sunday by open lengths, Nestheld firm at 6-5 (actually plus 135) at Costa Rica-based betting site Bovada towin the 1…

In the second of two special Racing Roundtables, James Scully, Kellie Reilly, and Vance Hanson look back on the final weekend of major Breeders' Cup preps and offer thoughts on whose stock is on the rise and on decline. James Scully: Slammed in the Filly & Mare Sprint (G1). A five-time restricted stakes winner over New Mexico-bred rivals, the…

Friday, October 7, 2022 at 5:52 pm |Back to: Top News Wonder Wheel | Sarah Andrew D.J. Stable's WONDER WHEEL (f, 2, Into Mischief-Wonder Gal, by Tiz Wonderful) cleared off and kept finding late to take Keeneland's "Win and You're In" GI Darley Alcibiades S. as the tepid 4-1 favorite. An impressive debut winner at Churchill Downs in June, the…

The Alcibiades Stakes (G1), a 1 1/16-mile race for juvenile fillies, is the traditional opening-day feature of the Keeneland fall meet. The spoils of the race on Friday, October 7 are rich: a $500000 purse, as well as an expenses-paid bid to the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies. Since Keeneland hosts the Breeders' Cup this year, the field was well…

Notes & Quotes From G2 Miss Grillo Stakes: Pleasant Passage From the NYRA Media Team: Emory Hamilton's homebred Pleasant Passage overcame rainy conditions and a yielding turf course to live up to her name in Saturday's Grade 2, $200000 Miss Grillo at Aqueduct Racetrack with a gate-to-wire three-quarter-length victory that could catapult her to the…

Horse racing returns to Keeneland on November 4 with Day 1 of the 2022 Breeders' Cup. Get the best bets for the Juvenile Turf Sprint, Juvenile Fillies Turf, and Juvenile Turf. The first day of the Breeders' Cup is Future Stars Friday. Five Breeders' Cup races are featured, all for two-year-olds. Three are on the grass track - the Juvenile Turf…

Join our channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage The Breeders' Cup 2022 is on the horizon (Nov 4 & 5) but before the action gets started, we've still got a whole month of Breeders' Cup qualifying races to look out for in October. 28 races to be exact, so we showcase the contests to look out for that will get the winners a free ticket…

The emotion is palpable in Jason Loutsch's voice whenever he talks about the possibility of standing in a Breeders' Cup winner's circle celebrating one of Albaugh Family Stables' own, but amends himself slightly when asked about the venture earning its first triumph in the World Championships. While the Albaugh blue and white silks have yet to…

The winners of the last four Juvenile Fillies have combined to win just three races following their Breeders' Cup triumphs. This has been far from a productive race dating to Songbird's win in 2015, but that trend looks poised to buck in 2020 with a deep field full of talented 2-year-olds from across the country. This year's field could feature…