Kristina Cecil and Zillah Reddam's 5-year-old mare Medaglia d'Amour (Medaglia d'Oro) was scratched from Friday's GI Breeders' Cup Ladies' Classic after spiking a fever, it was announced shortly after noon on Thursday. “We scratched her this morning because she had a 102 temperature,” said trainer Ben Cecil. “She coughed a couple of times, too, so we can't run her like that.” A Grade III winner, Medaglia d'Amour would have been making her dirt debut in the Ladies' Classic. She ran second in the GII Palomar H. at Del Mar Sept. 5 before a last-out ninth in the GI Yellow Ribbon S. at Santa Anita Oct. 1. Medaglia d'Amour has been catalogued at Sunday's Fasig-Tipton November Sale as hip 135.
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