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Lahudood will likely be supplemented to Breeders' Cup Shadwell Stable's homebred LAHUDOOD (GB) (Singspiel [Ire]), who sprang a 21-1 upset in Saturday's Flower Bowl Invitational S. (G1), will probably be supplemented to the October 27 Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf (G1), according to trainer Kiaran McLaughlin. "I did not speak to Sheikh Hamdan, but (racing manager) Rick Nichols did, and he said he was very happy with the race," McLaughlin noted. "We'd have to supplement her to the Breeders' Cup, I think for $180,000, but it looks like that's where we'll go." A stakes winner in France last year, Lahudood was making her fourth American start in a highly competitive renewal of the Flower Bowl. The four-year-old filly rallied up the rail to defeat the pacesetting Rosinka (Ire) (Soviet Star) by three-quarters of a length. "I still can't believe it," McLaughlin said of Lahudood's surprising victory. "She's a nice filly, but it was such a tough race." In another Flower Bowl post script, conditioner Todd Pletcher reported that champion WAIT A WHILE (Maria's Mon) exited her third-place effort in fine fettle and is on course for a rematch with Lahudood in the Filly & Mare Turf at Monmouth. "She came out in good order," Pletcher said on Sunday. "She looked good this morning. (Jockey Garrett Gomez) said he thinks she doesn't like the unevenness of this (Belmont Park) turf course. That was the only excuse I could come up with." Pletcher also confirmed that THE LEOPARD (Storm Cat), the $2.5 million two-year-old in training purchase who wired the field in Saturday's Pilgrim S., would aim for the inaugural Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf on October 26. "The Leopard had things his own way the first part of it, but I like the way he finished and galloped out," Pletcher summed up. Another juvenile who impressed on Saturday, smashing debut maiden winner ETCHED (Forestry), has an outside chance of lining up in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile (G1). "We don't know what we're going to do with him," McLaughlin said. "He might run in the Breeders' Cup, but the Nashua (S. [G3] at Aqueduct on October 28) may be more realistic. He's a bit of a coltish one." Etched rolled by 6 3/4 lengths in the 5TH race, reeling off six furlongs in a snappy 1:09 3/5. A homebred racing for Darley Stable, the chestnut is out of 2001 Breeders' Cup Distaff (G1) heroine Unbridled Elaine (Unbridled's Song). Possibly eyeing a Breeders' Cup engagement is TRIPPI'S STORM (Trippi), a half-length winner of Saturday's Kelso H. (G2), who is now under consideration for the Mile (G1). "He ran a great race yesterday," Hough said. "Everything worked out well. There was plenty of speed for him to run at." Trippi's Storm had been performing honorably at marathon distances in his three prior starts, finishing second in the Bowling Green H. (G2), third in the Sword Dancer Invitational S. (G1) and fourth in the Man o' War S. (G1), but Hough believes those trips are a shade too far for his charge. "I thought a mile and a half and a mile and three-eighths was just a little too long for him," Hough said. "If I had to hand-pick a distance for him, it would probably be a mile and an eighth or a mile and a sixteenth."
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