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champion tremendous runner and discoverFinal yr’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies one-two finishers will conflict for the second time on Sunday. Las Bergenes Stakes For 3-year-old fillies operating the mile at Santa Anita.
Tremendous Corredora defeated favourite Explorer by three-quarters of a size in her stakes debut within the 1 1/16-mile Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies at Del Mar on Oct. 31. With this win, Tremendous Corredora the Eclipse Award is confirmed because the 2025 North American Champion Two-Yr-Outdated Filly. She hasn’t raced since.
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Skilled by John Sadler, Tremendous Corredora is a Gun Runner filly that offered for $400,000 on the 2024 Keeneland September Yearling Sale. She is owned by Spartan Equine Racing, West Level Thoroughbreds, Robert Gardiner and Michael Olszewski. Common rider Hector Berrios will probably be referred to as up once more to Tremendous Corredora.
Coach Bob Baffert’s Explorer held off Tremendous Corredora at Santa Anita on Jan. 10, simply because the daughter of Blame received by 5 1/4 lengths within the seven-furlong Santa Ynez racetrack. Explorer received the G2 Oak Leaf across the second nook earlier than the Breeders’ Cup and completed second within the Del Mar Debutante (G1).
The Explorer, which offered for $350,000 at public sale final yr, is owned by Michael Pegram, Carl Watson and Paul Wightman. Common rider Juan Hernandez is scheduled to journey.
Las Virgenes has a four-horse subject and earns 20-10-6-4 in qualifying factors for the Grade 1 Kentucky Oaks. Explorer is not any. He’s 1st on the Oaks leaderboard with 35 factors and 2nd in Tremendous Corredora with 30 factors.
A looming risk to the above duo is That means, who completed fourth in his second begin within the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies. Skilled by Michael McCarthy, she has additionally been absent for the reason that Breeders’ Cup. Previous to that effort, That means was a debut winner operating 6 1/2 furlongs at Los Alamitos in September. Gun Runner That means was offered at public sale as a yearling for $440,000. She is campaigned by Bridlewood Farm and Eclipse Thoroughbred Companions.
That is what led present two-time North American champion jockey Flavien Prat to come back to the West and journey.
