The Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1T), first inaugurated at Santa Anita Park in 2008, will be contested for the 17th time this year as part of the Breeders’ Cup World Championship “Future Stars Friday” program on November 1. The one-mile turf event is for 2-year-old fillies. After two years as a non-graded stakes, it received its grade 1 status in 2010 and has been a grade 1 since 2012.
Lady Eli. Daniella Ricci/USRacing Photo.
Will Chad Brown send out his seventh winner of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf this year?
Eclipse Award-winner Chad Brown has dominated this race having sent out six winners, including inaugural winner Maram. His other winners are Lady Eli, New Money Honey, Rushing Fall, Newspaperofrecord and Hard to Justify a year ago. Javier Castellano, Florent Geroux and Irad Ortiz Jr. have won two each and the four wins from Castellano and Ortiz came on runners trained by Brown.
Hard to Justify raced once as a 3-year-old in May and has not returned to action since.
Lady Eli is the only Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf winner to earn year-end honors, but she earned it as an older mare when her connections took home the Eclipse Award as the 2017 older turf female.
In 2019 Sharing took home the victory in this race. The Graham Motion-trained Speightstown filly is a daughter of 2010 Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf winner Shared Account, who was also conditioned by Motion. Last year leading European trainer Aidan O’Brien saddled Irish-bred Mediate to earn him a first winner of this race
Lady Eli still owns the fastest time of 1:33.41 for her win at Santa Anita in 2014.
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