The co-feature of “Future Stars Friday” on Breeders’ Cup weekend is the $2 million NetJets Juvenile Fillies. The nation’s high 2-year-old fillies will journey 1 1/16 miles on the grime predominant monitor at Del Mar for the proper to be known as a Breeders’ Cup champion. The Grade 1 race is scheduled because the seventh race on the cardboard with a listed submit time of 6:30 p.m. ET.
The winner of this race is nearly all the time voted champion 2-year-old filly on the year-end Eclipse Awards. Because the race’s inauguration in 1984, the one winners who didn’t win the Eclipse Award had been Ria Antonia in 2013, Money Run in 1999, My Flag in 1995, and Twilight Ridge in 1985.
The dialog about this yr’s Juvenile Fillies runs by #6 Echo Zulu (4-5), who looms because the overwhelming favourite. She’s received all three of her begins impressively, prevailing in every race by a minimum of 4 lengths. She’s already a two-time Grade 1 winner, having taken the Spinaway Stakes at Saratoga and the Frizette Stakes at Belmont Park. Her presence is so imposing that solely 5 different fillies entered the race.
Echo Zulu was ridden by Ricardo Santana Jr. in her first three begins. Nonetheless, Santana, who’s within the midst of a significant using stoop, was taken off of Echo Zulu on Monday morning. Joel Rosario, who has received two of the final three editions of this race, takes the mount for coach Steve Asmussen.
Given Echo Zulu’s dominance and really possible low value, there’s not a lot worth in betting her to win. The important thing to earning profits is attempting to determine who will are available in second and taking part in them underneath Echo Zulu in an exacta.
In my eyes, the most probably runner-up is #2 Hidden Connection (5-2) for coach Bret Calhoun and jockey Reylu Gutierrez. She crushed the sphere within the Pocahontas Stakes at Churchill Downs final out, profitable by 9 ¼ lengths after ranking off the tempo on the surface. She’s certainly one of two horses in right here to have received at 1 1/16 miles and has a few of the greatest late tempo figures within the race. She ought to race on or close to the tempo and, even when Echo Zulu runs away and hides, Hidden Connection will be capable of outkick the others and end second.
The Echo Zulu-Hidden Connection exacta won’t pay that a lot, relative to the typical exacta. Nonetheless, given the circumstances, it ought to be an excellent worth. To supply some perspective: if Echo Zulu wasn’t within the race, and you can get 3-1 or 4-1 on Hidden Connection in a five-horse area, you’d in all probability suppose that was an excellent value. That’s primarily what this wager is.
TOP CONTENDERS
#6 Echo Zulu
#2 Hidden Connection
#1 Desert Dawn
#5 Juju’s Map
Wagering Technique on a $25 Finances
$25 exacta, #6 with #2
What to say on the betting window:
Del Mar, Race 7, $25 exacta, #6 with #2
