She's a tough little cookie. Thunder Gulches and Churchill Downs are kind of a hard combination to beat. In Reality division of the Florida Stallion Stakes at Calder Race Course on Oct. 7. Not going to the Breeders' Cup improves our chances of having a good spring. For Thunder Bertie, the future is now.
Fillies develop quick, they come running, and they're bigger and stronger.
There's some irony in the fact that Flint is finally returning to the Breeders' Cup with a filly by Thunder Gulch. Flint purchased a painting of the sire's Kentucky Derby victory at an auction a few years back and it adorns the wall of his home study. If that's an omen of good things to come in the Juvenile Fillies, that's fine with Flint. It's a tough field. It's not going to be an easy race by any stretch of the imagination.