A field of 13 2-year-old fillies—three of them maidens and eight exiting maiden races—have been entered for the $100,000 Jimmy Durante Stakes (G3T) going a mile on the turf at Del Mar Nov. 30.
Flying Dutchmen Breeding and Racing's Supa Speed , trained by John Sadler, is the 7-2 morning-line favorite. Bred in Louisiana by Coteau Grove Farms, the Justify filly was a $460,000 purchase at the 2023 Keeneland September Yearling Sale for the Boersma family's Flying Dutchmen operation, which signed the ticket under a previously used moniker, Boardshorts Stables.
Supa Speed won her debut going five furlongs on the Del Mar turf Aug. 1 and followed that up with a game second-place finish Sept. 7 in the Del Mar Juvenile Fillies Turf Stakes going a mile. After failing to draw into the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1T), she tried open company in the Nov. 1 Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance Stakes but finished 12th while encountering repeated trouble.
Supa Speed gets a rider switch to Flavien Prat Saturday.
Sea Runner , a homebred Gun Runner filly for Cuyathy, is next on the morning line at 9-2. She finished third, 2 1/2 lengths back of Supa Speed, in the Del Mar Juvenile Fillies Turf. Sea Runner dropped back to the maiden ranks after that stakes placing and earned her diploma Oct. 4 going a mile on the Santa Anita Park turf.
Sea Runner is a half to Cuyathy's grade 1 winner Johannes , who finished second in this year's Breeders' Cup Mile (G1T).
Del Mar, Saturday, November 30, 2024, Race 5Entries: Jimmy Durante S. (G3T)
PP
Horse
Jockey
Wgt
Trainer
M/L
1
1Resolve (KY)
Hector Isaac Berrios
120
Leonard Powell
6/1
2
2Slick (IRE)
Dylan Davis
120
Philip D'Amato
15/1
3
3Lee's Baby Girl (KY)
Edwin A. Maldonado
120
Doug F. O'Neill
8/1
4
4Dandy Vandy (FR)
Irad Ortiz, Jr.
120
Philip D'Amato
12/1
5
5Schilflied (KY)
Tiago Josue Pereira
120
Patrick Gallagher
15/1
6
6Casalu (KY)
Kazushi Kimura
120
Bob Baffert
12/1
7
7Origami (IRE)
Antonio Fresu
120
Jack Sisterson
12/1
8
8Supa Speed (LA)
Flavien Prat
120
John W. Sadler
7/2
9
9Sea Runner (KY)
Umberto Rispoli
120
Tim Yakteen
9/2
10
10Ce La Vi Charli (KY)
Javier Castellano
120
George Papaprodromou
20/1
11
11Will Then (KY)
Vincent Cheminaud
120
Jonathan Thomas
20/1
12
12Tigerish (KY)
Lanfranco Dettori
120
Richard Baltas
15/1
13
13Acquitted (KY)
Juan J. Hernandez
120
Richard E. Mandella
8/1