Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies participant Hidden Connection put in her first work since a fourth-place finish at Del Mar on Nov. 5, reports The Blood-Horse. The daughter of Connect is preparing to start her 3-year-old campaign after working three furlongs at Fair Grounds Race Course in :36 ⅘ on Dec. 19.
Hidden Connection, trained by W. Bret Calhoun, will be pointing towards the Kentucky Oaks prep races at either Fair Grounds or Oaklawn Park. Owned by Hidden Brook Farm and Black Type Thoroughbreds, the filly recently returned to Calhoun's stable after a break in Ocala, Fla.
“She looks like she's doing well. We just tried to give her an easy breeze today, we weren't wanting to go quite that quick,” Calhoun said to The Blood-Horse. “She's very willing, and obviously, she has a pretty high cruising speed. It was pretty easy for her today what she did. We had her under a pretty snug hold, that's what she did, and things went very well.”
Hidden Connection made her career debut a winning one by 7 ½ lengths at Colonial Downs in New Kent, Va., on Aug. 17. The filly returned to the winner's circle on Sept.18 at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., finishing 9 ¼ lengths ahead of her competition in the Grade 3 Pocahontas Stakes. After winning at Churchill, Hidden Connection shipped to Del Mar for the Breeders' Cup where she finished fourth after stumbling at the start.
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