Trainer Day Phillips hoping Dixie Moon picks up third win of season Breeders’ Cup
DEL MAR, Calif. — Veteran trainer Catherine Day Phillips is hoping Dixie Moon can bring her an elusive Breeders’ Cup win.
Day Phillips will send the two-year-old to the US$1-million Juvenile Fillies Turf event Friday at Del Mar. Dixie Moon has two wins and a second-place finish this season ($191,720 in earnings), the runner-up effort coming in the Grade 1 $250,000 Natalma Stakes to Breeders’ Cup rival Capla Temptress at Woodbine Racetrack on Sept. 17.
Dixie Moon will be Day Phillips’ third Breeders’ Cup starter. A Bit O’Gold was 13th in the ’05 Cup Classic while Van Lear Rose finished sixth in the 2008 Juvenile Fillies.
“It (Breeder’ Cup win) is the dream,” Day Phillips said. “It’s everybody’s dream that puts a saddle on a racehorse.