Scat Daddy Fillies Top Autumn Miss

Toinette | Coady Photography

A pair of 3-year-old fillies by the same sire, with the same lifetime record, will line up right next to each other as two of the top choices in Saturday's 14-horse GIII Autumn Miss S. at Santa Anita.

Toinette (Scat Daddy), fourth in her debut on the Del Mar main track last fall, graduated first time on grass going down the hill Jan. 28 at Santa Anita and repeated in a two-turn Keeneland allowance Apr. 11. Tried in stakes company next out, the $110,000 Keeneland September buy accomplished something no one else has, nailing otherwise-undefeated MGISW Rushing Fall (More Than Ready) in the GIII Edgewood S. May 4 at Churchill. The dark bay disappointed, however, when fading to finish ninth in the GI Belmont Oaks Invitational July 7, and hasn't raced since.

Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and TNIP Racing's Tesora (Scat Daddy) followed up a sharp debut victory sprinting on the Gulfstream lawn last September with an eye-catching two-turn optional claiming triumph at Del Mar to check the 'TDN Rising Star' box. Fourth in a pair of stakes tries to begin her 3-year-old season, the $130,000 KEESEP pickup captured the Christiecat S. going six furlongs at Belmont Sept. 7 and stretches back out to a mile in this West Coast return.

Ms Bad Behavior (Blame) tries again for an overdue first graded stakes tally. Victress of the course-and-distance China Doll S. Mar. 10, the $75,000 KEESEP grad was second in the GIII Providencia S., third in the GII San Clemente S. and fourth in the GI Del Mar Oaks this spring and summer. She most recently completed the exacta when turned back to a sprint in the Unzip Me S. here Sept. 29.

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