No elims for Crown 3FP, two splits needed in 3FT

A powerful troika of Tracy Brainard-trained fillies will attempt to sweep the board in the $710,000 Breeders Crown for 3-Year-Old Filly Pacers at Woodbine on Saturday, Oct. 24. Only five other fillies entered once Bulletproof Enterprises’ Yellow Diamond and Shacked Up supplemented on Monday and they added another from their eligible ranks, Kabbalah Karen B, a recent Ontario Sire Stake Gold elim winner. All three are daughters of 2004 Breeders Crown champ Western Terror and the trio has earned $1.6 million this year.

 

Ginger And Fred would be a dominant filly in any other year. Owned by Taylor, Silva, Feldman and Gold, the offspring of Real Artist won a division of the Adioo Volo and a heat of the Jugette en route to eight wins in 15 starts and $462,319 in earnings. Right behind her on the earnings list is Special Sweetheart, trained by Tom Artandi for the 4 For 3 Stable. Her biggest win this year was in the $350,000 Valley Forge at Harrah's Chester.

 

Blogette Hanover, also a division winner of the Adioo Volo will represent the John Burns Stable. Burns co-owns the filly with Peter Berry and John Fielding. Shanghai Lil, a daughter of three-time Breeders Crown winner Jenna’s Beach Boy, counts divisions of the Bluegrass, Simpson and Tompkins-Geers among her stake wins. Trained by Pete Foley, Shanghai Lil has hit the board in 12 of her 17 starts this year.

 

West Of LA is winless on the year, but her connections bring some powerful racetrack credit to the event. Her conditioner (and co-owner) is Bob McIntosh, the leading trainer in the Breeders Crown series with 15 trophies and $5,532,533. He has won this event three times, with Beloved Angel (2005) Immortality (1993) and So Fresh (1992).

 

The compete field, in alphabetical order, is: Blogette Hanover, Ginger And Fred, Kabbalah Karen B, Shacked Up, Shanghai Lil, Special Sweetheart, West Of LA and Yellow Diamond.

 

A deeply talented group of 20 sophomore trotting fillies heads north to Woodbine for the $600,000 Breeders Crown 3-Year-old Filly Trot. The closely contested division includes Hambletonian Oaks winner Broadway Schooner and runner-up Raising Rachel, Kentucky Futurity winner Seaside, Buckette winner Windsong Soprano, Bluegrass winners Southwind Wasabi and Margarita Momma, and Ontario Sire Stakes Gold final winner Elusive Desire as just some of the fillies with the credentials to pull off a Crown title.