Wedding Toast Tops Competitive Group in $2 Million Breeders' Cup Distaff

Wedding Toast Tops Competitive Group in $2 Million Breeders' Cup Distaff

Category : News - Thu 29/10/2015 - 21:01 EDT

On Friday at Keeneland, the featured race is the $2 million Breeders Cup Distaff. The Grade 1 event, carded at a mile and a sixteenth, has a full field of fourteen fillies and mares.

Though the defending champion Untapable was scratched, the race has shaped up to be competitive and wide open with Wedding Toast the slight favorite at 4-1 odds. Trained by Kiaran McLaughlin, the five-year-old daughter of Street Sense has won four of her six starts this year and comes into this race off of three consecutive wins against graded stakes competition. Jose Lezcano will be in the irons and they will break from post position seven.

Stopchargingmaria tops loaded group for Pletcher

Second choice at morning line odds of 5-1 is Stopchargingmaria, one of three contenders in the race for trainer Todd Pletcher. A four-year-old daughter of Tale of the Cat, she has won eight of her fifteen starts and is a multiple Grade 1 winner. She is trying to rebound after finishing fourth as the favorite in the Personal Ensign Stakes (G1) last time out and will break from post position four under jockey Javier Castellano.

Ambitious step up for Peruvian star Salama

Also in the field and a longshot at morning line odds of 50-1 is Salama for trainer Charles Lopresti who campaigned Wise Dan to two Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1) victories. A bay daughter of Desert Party, the three-year-old filly has been on the board in all nine starts and was a five-time winner in Peru. She made her stateside debut with a runner-up effort in an optional claiming race and will have Julian Leparoux aboard from post three. 

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