Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies

BREEDERS' CUP SATURDAY

PREVIEWS

BREEDERS' CUP JUVENILE FILLIES

(G1), 4TH-SA, $2,000,000, 2YO, F, 1 1/16M, 3:05PM, 11-2

Two of the 10 horses entered for Saturday's Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies

bring an unbeaten two-for-two mark into the 1 1/16-mile race, and a win by

either would wrap up the Eclipse Award for champion two-year-old filly.

Actually a win by any number in this field would see the Eclipse question

answered, and our top pick is one of only two in the bunch with prior race

experience at Santa Anita.

1ST -- SHE'S A TIGER owns two losses from five starts thus far in her career,

but both were very close on the wire. The most recent came as a head second in

the September 28 Chandelier, Santa Anita's prep for the Juvenile Fillies, and

the other was a half-length runner-up effort in the Sorrento at Del Mar in

August while sprinting.

She's a Tiger didn't seem to have any trouble with the stretch out in the 1

1/16-mile Chandelier, her first time past seven furlongs, and earned very nice

triple-digit BRIS E1 and E2 numbers. That's not all that surprising considering

the Tale of the Cat filly is a half-sister to the speedy Smiling Tiger, who ran

third in the 2010 and 2012 editions of the Breeders' Cup Sprint.

Jockey Gary Stevens will have to ration She's a Tiger's speed in the Juvenile

Fillies in the same manner as last year's winner and eventual champion

two-year-old filly Beholder, but the bay miss could very easily lead all the way

home on Saturday.

2ND -- SCANDALOUS ACT will try to win the Juvenile Fillies following the same

path as 2010 heroine Awesome Feather, who kept her career line perfect while

sweeping Calder's Florida Stallion Stakes (FSS) series for fillies en route to a

2 1/4-length victory in the Breeders' Cup at Churchill Downs.

Scandalous Act doesn't own a perfect mark, throwing in a

seventh-place finish after a poor start in the J J'sdream in late June, but has romped in all four

of her other starts. She completed the FSS by a combined 22 lengths and broke

her maiden by 6 1/2 lengths, all at Calder.

Eduardo Nunez has been in the saddle for all but one of Scandalous Act's

races -- he was forced to miss the mount two back after being thrown one race

prior to getting a leg up on the filly in the Susan's Girl division of the FSS

-- and will take the reins on his first Breeders' Cup mount Saturday.

3RD -- SWEET REASON captured her initial two career starts by a total 12

lengths, including the Spinaway at Saratoga which earned her a field-best BRIS

Speed rating of 103. No other runner in Saturday's field has come close to

posting a triple-digit Speed figure, and a return to that form could easily see

the Leah Gyarmati trainee in the winner's circle.

The biggest question Sweet Reason has to overcome is the distance. The bay

daughter of Street Sense stretched out to a mile in the Frizette last out and

came running to be second on the wire, beaten 1 1/4 lengths. She had a bit of a

bad start, but that shouldn't have affected the late-running miss, and we're

going with the theory she ran out of room and will enjoy the extra sixteenth of

a mile.

OTHERS -- ARTEMIS AGROTERA and UNTAPABLE are the two unbeaten runners in

Saturday's Juvenile Fillies, and either one could keep her mark perfect. Artemis

Agrotera took the Frizette over Sweet Reason last out, but once again we think

the extra distance will benefit the latter miss. Untapable captured the

Pocahontas at Churchill Downs going 1 1/16 miles but was a little green early in

that contest. The Breeders' Cup atmosphere could be too much for the bay filly

to handle at this point.

ROSALIND has proven herself a triple-surface threat in just three races. The

Ken McPeek pupil broke her maiden on Ellis Park's turf, ran third in the

Pocahontas on Churchill's main dirt track, then last out finished second in the

Alcibiades over the Polytrack at Keeneland. The chestnut miss could easily find

herself in contention in the lane on Saturday.

Same thing goes for CONCAVE, who will be trying a conventional dirt surface

for the first time on Saturday. Previously, the bay broke her maiden on

Hollywood's turf before taking the Sorrento on Del Mar's Polytrack. She'll enter

the Juvenile Fillies off a third in the Del Mar Debutante.

SWEET COMPASS beat our top pick in the Chandelier, but the Bob Baffert

trainee's numbers just aren't impressive enough for us to back for the win

though she could make some noise in the top four.