Drakenstein-bred Beach Bomb’s 16 qualifying points will help in her bid to earn a final field berth in the Breeders Cup Filly and Mare Turf. Last year the daughter of Lancaster Bomber out of Beach Beauty qualified automatically by winning the Gr 1 Cartier Paddock Stakes.
One Stripe (One World – Drakenstein Stud) has already qualified for the Breeders Cup Mile, having won the “win and you’re in” race, the L’Ormarin’s King’s Plate, while both Beach Bomb and Wilgerbosdrift & Mauritzfontein-bred Gimme A Nother (Gimmethegreenlight – Nother Russia) are SA-breds prominent in the points standings of the Breeders Cup Filly and Mare Turf.
However, the points are not the only criterium in the final field selection process.
Breeders’ Cup Limited has adopted a field selection system to select runners, in the event fields are oversubscribed, and this system ranks horses in order of preference based upon (i) wins in Breeders’ Cup Challenge races, (ii) a point system and (iii) the judgment of a panel of racing experts.
At present One Stripe is one of seven horses who have qualified for the Breeders Cup Mile and they, together with the “win and you’re in” races they have won, are: Deterministic (USA) (The Gr 1 FanDuel Fourstardave (Saratoga)), Notable Speech (GB) (Gr 1 Rogers Woodbine Mile), Docklands (GB) (Gr 1 Queen Anne Stakes (Royal Ascot)), Jantar Mantar (JPN) (Yasuda Kinen (Tokyo)), One Stripe (SAF) (Gr 1 L’Ormarins King’s Plate), Qirat (GB) (Gr 1 Visit Qatar Sussex Stakes (Goodwood)), Soul Rush (JPN) (Gr 1 Dubai Turf (Meydan)).
In The Breeders Cup Filly and Mare Turf, six horses have already qualified by winning “win and you’re in races”. Beach Bomb is in joint fourth place in the point standings for the rest of the hopefuls with 16 points, which she has gathered through a Gr 1 second in the New York Stakes at Saratoga (six points) plus two Gr 3 victories (four points each) and a Gr 3 second (two points).
Gimme A Nother is in joint fifth place on 12 points which she gathered with a Gr2 win this month (six points), a Gr2 second (four points) and a Gr3 second (two points). She runs in the colours of Jessica and Steven Jell’s Newstead Stables LLC.
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