Width Tagged as Favorite for Frizette

Claiborne Farm and Adele Dilschneider's Width, a bay filly by Blame  , has been pegged as the 5-2 morning-line favorite for the Oct. 3 Frizette Stakes (gr. I) at Belmont Park. The one-turn mile race for juvenile fillies, a Breeders' Cup "Win and You're In" race, is one of six graded stakes on the "Super Saturday" card at the New York track.



The Frizette drew a field of seven, with another daughter of Blame   in the lineup, along with a sharp New York-bred and a filly from England riding a two-race win streak.



Width has made only one start, but was impressive Aug. 23 going 5 1/2 furlongs at Saratoga Race Course under Jose Ortiz. She is trained by Christophe Clement and has an interesting pedigree in that she is inbred 3x3 to Bound, the second dam of Blame and the second dam of Width's dam, Extent (by Pulpit). She also gets a 4x4 dose of Mr. Prospector through Pulpit's dam Preach, and Blame's broodmare Liable, who is out of Mr. P's Seeking the Gold.

The other daughter of Blame, Reddam Racing and Erik Johnson's Where's the D, broke her maiden at Del Mar Sept. 7 for trainer Doug O'Neill.

Second on the morning line at 3-1 is the state-bred She's All Ready, who will break from the rail under Junior Alvarado for trainer Jim Ryerson. Bred by in New York by Kings and Queens Farm and owned by Michael Salerno's Nirvana Stables, she is from the first crop of Girolamo  , out of the El Prado mare Prominent. Girolamo—fourth on the first-crop sire list—began his stud career in New York but has since moved to Kentucky.



She's All Ready won twice at Saratoga, topping state-bred maiden special weight runners by 8 1/4 lengths at 5 1/2 furlongs Aug. 7, then came back Aug. 28 to win the Seeking the Ante Stakes on New York Showcase Day by three lengths. A bullet five furlongs in 1:00 1/5 Sept. 26 has her on her toes.



LNJ Foxwoods (Larry, Nanci, and Jaime Roth) and trainer Steve Asmussen will go after the Frizette with Nickname, a 3 1/2-length maiden winner at Saratoga Sept. 2 at 9-10 odds. She scored a 96 Equibase speed figure in that effort, which tops the Frizette field.



The dark bay or brown filly by Scat Daddy   finished behind Rachel's Valentina in her debut earlier in the summer and is well-drawn in post 5. Bred in Kentucky by Michael Hui, Nickname was a $350,000 Keeneland September sale yearling buy a year ago and is the first foal out of the Borrego mare Nina Fever.



Bred in Kentucky but raced in England is Nemoralia, a winner over a synthetic surface and a winner over turf at Doncaster last time out Sept. 10. She is by More Than Ready  —Alina, by Came Home, and will be ridden by Joel Rosario for trainer Jeremy Noseda.