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Breeders' Cup World Championships Friday, Nov. 6 and Saturday, Nov. 7 Breeders’ Cup World Championships Friday, Nov. 6 and Saturday, Nov. 7 Turf Races Notes Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020 Contact: Notes Team, 859-250-0358 Longines Turf Channel Maker – On Thursday morning, Channel Maker went out for a routine gallop on the Keeneland main track and appeared bright and alert as he prepares for his toughest task of the season. With a championship on the line, older turf luminary Channel Maker hopes to win his third G1 in a row in what coincidentally will be his third try in the Longines Turf. Trained by Bill Mott for Gary Barber, Wachtel Stable, R.A. Hill Stable and Reeves Thoroughbred Racing, the son of 2007 Turf winner English Channel has won Saratoga’s Sword Dancer and Belmont’s Joe Hirsch in his past two starts and seems in the best form of his career. He hopes to improve upon his 12th in the 2019 Turf and 11th in 2018 Turf. As a 2yo, he was seventh in the 2016 Juvenile Turf. “He’s sharp and has bounced back good from his last race,” Mott said. “He seems to be a horse who does well in the fall of the year. The ground and pace scenario have been good for him in the last couple races. I am not sure how much the turf is going to firm up. It’s not going to be a rock-hard turf course, even if it doesn’t rain between now and then.” Maker’s Mark Filly & Mare Turf Civil Union – Allen Stable Inc.’s Civil Union galloped 1 1/2m Thursday morning on her quest to win her fifth race in a row in Saturday’s Filly and Mare Turf. The 5yo daughter of War Front had won one of three starts for trainer Chad Brown before joining Hall of Fame trainer Shug McGaughey’s stable late last year. After finishing third in an allowance at Gulfstream Park Jan. 30, Civil Union came off a five- month layoff to win a 1 ¼m allowance at Belmont Park. She went on to win an ungraded 1 1/2m stakes at Belmont before scoring by a length in the Glens Falls at Saratoga at 1 3/8m. Her win streak continued in the Oct. 10 Flower Bowl when she rallied to win the 1 ½m stakes at Belmont by a head. “We got her in November and ran her in January at Gulfstream. I knew she wanted to run a distance of ground so I decided to put the hold on her until we got back to New York. Then, New York put the hold on us for a while,” said McGaughey, referring to the temporary stoppage of racing in New York because of the COVID-19 pandemic. “It was a month or two longer than I thought she’d be able to run. Once she started running, she was running good, so it worked out.” McGaughey is encouraged with how Civil Union has blossomed during the 2020 campaign. “She seems to be coming out of her races better and better. She really had two good works up there since the Flower Bowl. She got out and galloped great this morning. We’re excited about Saturday.” Joel Rosario is back aboard Civil Union Saturday after riding her to victory in her last two starts. Harvey’s Lil Goil – Dual-surface stakes-winning filly Harvey’s Lil Goil galloped a circuit of Keeneland’s main track Thursday morning for trainer Bill Mott as she prepares to take on a star-studded cast in the Maker’s Mark Filly & Mare Turf. Sire American Pharoah’s first G1 winner, the gray homebred of Harvey Clarke (co-owned by Paul Braverman) exits a course victory in the Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup over 9f. “The fact that she’s won over the course is good, but we might not have the exact same course we had that day because the ground was pretty firm when she won,” Mott said. “They’ve had rain since then and you don’t know how that’s going to affect it. Plus, it’s a tough group of older fillies she’s running against. We’re going from straight 3-year-old fillies to the older groups. It’s a big step for a lot of these horses, but she’s doing really well.” Mean Mary – A. G. Campbell Jr.’s Mean Mary galloped 1 1/2m at Keeneland Thursday morning while preparing for a start in Saturday’s Maker’s Mark Filly & Mare Turf. While Motion will be seeking a second straight victory in the Juvenile Fillies Turf with Alda and Invincible Gal Friday, he will be vying for a second career success in the Fillies and Mares Turf Saturday with Mean Mary. Motion saddled Shared Account for a victory in the 2010 edition of Fillies & Mares Turf. Shared Account is the dam of Sharing, who Motion saddled for a victory in the Juvenile Fillies Turf last year at Santa Anita. “The races for fillies have been good to us,” said Motion, who also has had Breeders’ Cup success with males, specifically Better Talk Now, the 2004 Turf winner, and Main Sequence, the 2014 Turf victor. “It’s really nice to be here with all that’s going on and have some normalcy and be able to compete in these races,” he added. Mean Mary had a four-race win streak snapped at Saratoga in the Aug. 23 Diana (G1), in which she finished second behind Rushing Fall by a neck after setting the pace and continuing on gamely to the wire. “It was the fourth or fifth time I was second in that race. I’ve never won it, so that made it more tough to take,” Motion said. Prior to the Diana, the 4yo daughter of Scat Daddy had won four straight races. The homebred filly won a Dec. 23 allowance at Gulfstream Park, where she went on to capture the Le Prevoyante and Orchid. After shipping north, she captured the New York at Belmont by 5 ½ lengths. “Early on, I didn’t realize she was this kind of filly, not really, until we got to Florida. Early on, she was very difficult. I never would have known she was this kind of filly,” Motion said. “Now, she very classy.” Mean Mary hasn’t raced since the Diana. “She loves to do it. She’s tough. That’s why I didn’t want to run her back again [after the Diana],” Motion said. “She runs so hard. She puts a lot into it.” Mean Mary, who will be ridden by Luis Saez, is rated second in the morning line at 7-2 for a rematch with Rushing Fall, who is the 5-2 morning line favorite. Chad Brown, Filly & Mare Turf (Sistercharlie, Rushing Fall, Nay Lady Nay, My Sister Nat) – Chad Brown will start an enviable quartet of starters in an attempt to win his fifth Maker’s Mark Filly & Mare Turf. Brown previously won with Zagora (2012), Dayatthespa (2014), Stephanie’s Kitten (2015 at Keeneland) and Sistercharlie (2018). All four of his runners galloped a routine circuit of the Keeneland main track hursday morning. Sistercharlie once again leads the charge, being arguably the most accomplished of his runners and a seven-time G1 winner. She hopes to improve upon her third at 4-5 odds in last year’s edition, while also improving from her two disappointing runs this season – thirds in both the Ballston Spa and Diana at Saratoga. “I see her really coming around and is training as well as she has all year,” Brown said. “Her last three breezes in particular have been excellent. I think she’s going to really appreciate the mile and three- sixteenths and having enough ground to get there. She drew well (in post two). “I just think she was really rusty that first start back and had not run in a really long time,” Brown continued. “I probably undertrained her knowing that she’s 6 and knowing in the back of your mind that she’s had a lot of career breezes and I don’t want to get her injured in the morning, so I probably undertrained her a little bit and that was fine, because I knew that first race back wasn’t in any way a goal of ours. I think her second race she really ran well (post six) and it set her up for this.” Rushing Fall, also a previous Breeders’ Cup winner when taking the 2017 Juvenile Fillies Turf, is a six-time G1 winner who will be closing out her career by running the farthest she has attempted (9.5f) in the Filly & Mare Turf. A winner of 11 of 14 lifetime, she has won five of six over this turf course and three of her four attempts at 9f, just short of this trip. Brown: “I think Rushing Fall drew well and is another one where unfortunately this is it for her. She’s had a nice career and hopefully she breaks well and has a nice trip from there. You do (worry about the distance), but we’ve been in this position before – Dayatthespa comes to mind and she had never tried a mile and a quarter – but sometimes the first time you try it is the best time you’ll ever run at it. Frankel used to tell me that.” My Sister Nat and Nay Lady Nay both exit the Flower Bowl Invitational at Belmont, finishing second and third behind Civil Union, who reopposes on Saturday.
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