Last year's champion 3-year-old filly Stellar Wind (Curlin), a leading contender for the GI Breeders' Cup Distaff, worked five furlongs at Santa Anita early Friday morning in 1:00.40 (6/56) under exercise rider Jose Contreras. Stablemate and 2015 GI Gold Cup at Santa Anita S. hero Hard Aces (Hard Spun), ticketed for the Marathon Nov. 4, went in 1:01.
“I was real happy with her breeze this morning,” said trainer John Sadler, who is 0-for-37 in the Breeders' Cup. “She broke three [lengths] behind Hard Aces, was outside him all the way and a half-length in front at the wire. She'll have one more breeze before the Distaff, next Friday. It was a very nice work, her usual work, no deviations from what we've been doing with her previously. She looked good doing it, so we're happy.”
Stellar Wind, a last out winner of the GI Zenyatta S. Oct. 1, posted fractional times of :25.20, :37.40 and :48.80, with a six- furlong gallop out of 1:13.20. She was a close second in last year's Distaff at Keeneland.
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