Autumn Miss Stakes (Grade 3)- $100.000 Purse
SA- For Fillies Three Years Old
One Mile on the Turf
October 27, 2018

While the virtual racing world awaits the running of the BC races, we don’t have to get too ahead of ourselves as we do have some entertaining races to watch this weekend as well. The stakes just will not be as high. At SA, we will have the twelfth running of the Autumn Miss, which is a smaller Grade 3 for three year old fillies on the grass. It will be the tenth time that the race has been an ungraded event. It provides a chance for those talented fillies who might not be quite ready to run against the elite in their division. That is the type of field we have here today, there are no big names, but they are all solid racehorses who would all love to get their first graded win of 2018. There are five going to the gate, so let’s meet the field.

#1- Daliterri Girl (Our Athletes, ridden by F Prat)- She will be remembered by running in the BC Juvenile Fillies Turf last year, and picking up the fourth place check. However, her career never took off from there, and she was actually sold after the BC. With Our Athletes this year, she has two dismal runnings at the graded level, though has otherwise been very good. She won her last start, the $100.000 KD Preview Ladies Turf. Ever since she landed on the bute, shadow roll combination, her performances have been more consistent, and that may have been the key for her. This race should not be much different then the KD Preview.

#2- Blonde Art (First Class Stable, ridden by J Talamo)- Had a strong 2017 which allowed her to also take part in the BC Juvenile Fillies Turf, but like Daliterri Girl, her career never continued forward at that level. She’s been passed around in claimers a couple times, and has performed quite well while in the First Class Stable fold, winning a pair of ungraded $100.000 stakes, which interestingly were both on off tracks. The time may be right for her to get a big graded win and perhaps begin to move forward in her career, now.

#3- Lancashire Hotpot (Blazin D, ridden by K J Desormeaux)- The Sneaky Little Pirate filly, had a three race winning streak earlier this year, which culminated in a $25.000 claimer win that saw her be picked up by Blazin D. Lancashire Hotpot has continued to run well in the new silks, and made her stake debut at a small ungraded event at MTH, and won on soft turf. Last month, she opened some eyes by finishing within a length of victory at the Grade 3 Noble Damsel at BEL. Speed figures continue to improve with each race, and a duplication of the Noble Damsel should get a win here.

#4- Queen Nebulae (Gdp Inc, ridden by R Bejarano)- A winner of three out of eleven starts, but she is still looking for her first stake win. She has made several attempts at NY-bred stakes, and they are always going to be difficult. Came close in June in the Dancing Renee, where she was second, just edged out by Cocoa Nut. Yes, that Cocoa Nut who just won (in a dead heat) Grade 2 Raven Run at KEE last week. She is transitioning here though, from a dirt sprinter. She has never run on the turf, other then her irrelevant debut race. No public turf works since February, so tough to pick, but certainly is capable.

#5- Southern Sky (Our Athletes, ridden by Mario Gutierrez)- The trainer takes the inside and the outside posts with his entries, and he did very well with this one. In May, he purchased her in private sales, from Mcl Stables, for just $25.000, after some decent success. He would not be content in doing what had worked, and completely switched her over to running on the grass, and it has paid off nicely. However, she is yet to run in a stake on the grass. Her last effort, an optional claimer right here at SA shows a lot of promise, and she should contend.

Prediction: 3-2-1-5

— NS

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