West Coast Belle to add more depth to Silverbulletday

West Coast Belle is one of several prominent fillies aiming for the January 17 Silverbulletday (Churchill Downs/Reed Palmer Photography) The $125,000 Silverbulletday at Fair Grounds on January 17 is shaping up as a display of the considerable depth of the Fair Grounds-based sophomore fillies class of 2015. Already expected to draw Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies runner-up Top Decile, as well as undefeated Divine Dawn from the formidable Larry Jones barn and Forever Unbridled — a full sister to last year’s winner of the inverse name — the Silverbulletday now looks to also be the focal point of undefeated Grade 2 winner West Coast Belle. A perfect three-for-three, the Wayne Catalano trainee exits two consecutive stakes wins at Churchill Downs — the $58,000 Rags to Riches on October 26 over a mile and the $200,000 Golden Rod last out on Nov. 29 — and has been training at Fair Grounds since. On December 26, she put in a five-furlong breeze in 1:01 1/5, her second work since her Golden Rod tally.

“She worked nice,” Catalano said. “We’re going to try to run her on the 17th
— we’re headed that way. She’s doing really well right now. She got a little
bit of a break, but not too much (after the Golden Rod).

A daughter of 2014 champion sire Tapit, West Coast Belle is a smallish filly
who does not give the initial impression of a strapping racehorse –but her
disposition is kind, her intelligence high and her tenacity and will to win
intense. Such were on display last out in the Golden Rod when she was challenged
in mid-stretch by No Fault of Mine and turned back that rival en route to a 1
1/4-length victory.

A product of generations of Ogden Phipps and Wheatley Stable bloodlines, she
will now attempt to emulate her great granddam and four-time Grade 1-winning
millionaire Dispute and win the Kentucky Oaks.

“The goal with her is the Kentucky Oaks,” Catalano concluded. “We’re going to
do our best to get there.”

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