Class Included vying for Ladies’ Classic victory for connections
Amy Feuerborn and Michael Feuerborn owned 4-year-old filly, Class Included has never finished worse than 2nd in her whole career which included 16 starts overall, and has only raced at Emerald Downs and Hastings race course, recently won the Grade 3 Ballerina Stakes at Hastings race course on 8 October, 2012, in a race that she finished second last year.
Her first graded stakes victory has instilled enough confidence in her connections to try out the filly in the Grade 1, $2 million Breeders’ Cup Ladies’ Classic at Santa Anita Park on 2 November, 2012, but trainer Jim Penney has kept the filly’s options open by also entering her in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint at 3 November, 2012.
The sensational filly might take a huge gamble and run in the Ladies’ Classic according to her owner Mike Feuerborn, who co-owns the filly with his wife Amy Feuerborn, also breeder of Class Included.
The filly by Include has been sensational all year long, as she is coming off 4 consecutive stakes victories and in seven starts this year she has gone on to win 6.
"I was 50-50 yesterday, and I'm still processing it everyday, but I'm leaning slightly toward the (Ladies) Classic. I'm thinking about it morning, noon and night," Feuerborn said.
Mike Feuerborn, said that the Ladies’ Classic seems to be a viable option for Class Included, who fancies 1 1/8 miles, the Ladies’ Classic distance, more over seven furlongs, the Filly and Mare Sprint distance.
As of now, the Ladies’ Classic has gone on to reel in just nine horses in pre-entries compare to 14 in the Filly and Mare Sprint, and as an owner he also considered the purse, which is twice as much in the Ladies’ Classic.
Other than that, Class Included has ever finished worse than second, and with her recent run of good form, it is justified to dream a little, as they go for ultimate glory by claiming one of the most toughest races the Breeders’ Cup World Championships has to offer, and her preference over 1 1/8 miles, who knows Class Included might go all the way.
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