Back in May when the New York Racing Association announced it would offer a series of maiden races at Saratoga Race Course for 2-year-olds that were restricted to those purchased as juveniles for $45,000 or less, few thought the series would have Breeders’ Cup implications.
But it proved to be the perfect springboard for British Idiom, who figures to be in the mix in the Nov. 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) at Santa Anita Park.