Behaviour’ Looks to Break Through

Cal MacWilliam and Neil Teitelbaum’s Miss Behaviour (Jump Start) looks to snap a three-race streak of seconds in tonight’s GIII Charles Town Oaks. Last year’s GII Matron S. heroine earned her first win of the season from Stormy Novel(Bernardini) in May’s Miss Preakness S., and completed the exacta in Belmont’s GIII Victory Ride S. June 29. Second again at 15-1 in the GI Test S. at Saratoga Aug. 2, she finished closest–albeit 8 1/2 lengths back–to runaway Stonetastic (Mizzen Mast) in the Aug. 30 Prioress S. “I don’t think there’s any seconditis there,” said trainer Phil Schoenthal. “If that’s the way it goes, there’s no shame in defeat facing that type of horses. A lot of times it’s the trip and the pace and how it shakes out. She’s the kind of horse that gives her best effort and is always right there.” Claiborne Farm and Adele Dilschneider’s Size (First Samurai) cuts back and drops in class off a disappointing ninth in the GI Alabama S. Aug. 16. The chestnut posted a 3-2-1-0 record to kick off her career in sprints, and annexed the 1 1/16-mile GIII Iowa Oaks in the slop at Prairie Meadows in June. “The [$500,000] purse and the distance are the reasons to try the Oaks,” Bill Mott said of the decision to ship down to West Virginia. “We think she could be effective. She’s proven that she’s pretty good at a mile and a sixteenth. We think she could be effective between seven furlongs and a mile and a sixteenth.” William Sorokolit, Jr. homebred Executive Allure (Bold Executive) is in with a major chance if she handles the conventional dirt. The Darwin Banach trainee broke her maiden at 12-1 second out in Woodbine’s Fanfreluche S. on the Polytrack as a juvenile, and added a restricted turf sprint and the Passing Mood S. over seven furlongs of sod July 12. She was most recently second to the highly impressive Speed Seeker (Heatseeker {Ire}) in the eight-furlong GIII Ontario Colleen S. Aug. 23.