Scottish Lassie (McKinzie), a multiple Grade I winner, has been withdrawn from the GI Longines Breeders' Cup Distaff and will be sold Nov. 3 at Fasig-Tipton's “Night of the Stars” (Hip 226), the connections said via a press release on Thursday.
According to trainer Jorge Abreu, he was “not 100% satisfied with the way Scottish Lassie was moving this morning, so out of an abundance of caution we've decided to scratch her from the race. This filly has a ton of heart, but in fairness to her, we didn't want to ask her to compete this weekend against the world's highest level of competition unless she was absolutely 100%.”
In just her second career start, Scottish Lassie broke her maiden in the GI Frizette Stakes at Belmont At The Big A by an eye-popping nine lengths, one of the widest margins in the race's 80-year history.
This year, at 3, she added the GI Coaching Club American Oaks to her resume, dominating the field by 15 1/2 lengths–the race's largest margin of victory in nearly 50 years. There, she defeated MGISW and champion Immersive (Nyquist), while earning a 99 Beyer Speed Figure and 7 Ragozin, making her one of the fastest two-turn, dirt fillies of her generation.
Scottish Lassie is from the first crop of young stallion McKinzie, while her dam, Bodebabe, is a winning half-sister to stakes winner Windmill, and to the dam of Crown the Buckeye (Yaupon), a multiple stakes winner at 2 in 2025. Scottish Lassie's very active female family also includes Grade I winners Visionaire (Grand Slam) and Tara's Tango (Unbridled's Song).
Bred in Kentucky by Winchester Farm, Scottish Lassie has earned $735,760 thus far for owners Sportsmen Stable, Parkland Thoroughbreds, Photos Finish LLC, Corms Racing Stable and Jorge Abreu.
The dark bay will be offered as a racing/broodmare prospect during the Fasig-Tipton sale with Taylor Made Sales Agency as consignor.
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