After a 2025 campaign that saw her produce on of the most dominant victories in elite-level competition all year, Scottish Lassie (McKinzie) kicked off her 4-year-old season with a masterclass effort against allowance optional claimers at Saratoga.
A Grade I winner as a juvenile, by way of a stunning nine-length score in the Frizette Stakes, Scottish Lassie, third in last year's GI Acorn, proved her love for Saratoga with a 15 1/2-length tour de force in last summer's GI CCA Oaks. She was a flat fourth last out Sept. 20 in the GI Cotillion at Parx before going on the sidelines.
The 3-5 favorite broke well and immediately stepped forward to control the tempo through opening splits of :22.71 and a half in :45.37. Flavien Prat was largely motionless as they swung for home, and his mount needed little encouraging to put away Limes Don't Lie (McKinzie) in the lane to post a dominating margin.
The winner, a half to Scot's Law (Tiz the Law), MSP, $158,551, has an unraced juvenile brother by Corniche in addition to a foal-brother by Practical Joke.
3rd-Saratoga, $121,250, Alw (C)/Opt. Clm ($80,000), 6-7, 3yo/up, f/m, 7f, 1:23.18, ft, 8 1/2 lengths.
SCOTTISH LASSIE (f, 4, McKinzie–Bodebabe, by Bodemeister) Sales history: $50,000 Ylg '23 KEESEP; $85,000 2yo '24 OBSMAR; $3,800,000 RNA 3yo '25 FTKNOV. Lifetime Record: 8-3-0-3, $804,510. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by FanDuel TV
O-Sportsmen Stable, Parkland Thoroughbreds, Photos Finish LLC, Corms Racing Stable and Abreu, Jorge R.; B-Winchester Farm (KY); T-Jorge R. Abreu.
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