Scottish Lassie, who was entered in the Nov. 1 Breeders' Cup Distaff (G1) at Del Mar, has been scratched from the race. The decision was announced Oct. 30. Trainer Jorge Abreu said she was a "little off" in her right front foot after training Wednesday.
"Yes, she's scratched. Better safe than sorry, always," Abreu said of the filly, who was fourth in last year's Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1). "This filly has a ton of heart, but in fairness to her, we didn't want to ask her to compete this weekend against the world's highest level of competition unless she was absolutely 100%."
The daughter of McKinzie and a two-time grade 1 winner will be offered Nov. 3 as Hip 226 as a racing/broodmare prospect in Fasig-Tipton's The November Sale with consignor Taylor Made Sales Agency.
Scottish Lassie is co-owned by Abreu, Sportsmen Stable, Parkland Thoroughbreds, Photos Finish, and Corms Racing Stable. She has a record of 2-0-3 from seven career starts and banked $735,760. She was bred in Kentucky by Winchester Farm.
In her second career start, Scottish Lassie broke her maiden in the Frizette Stakes (G1) at Aqueduct Racetrack by an eye-popping 9 lengths, one of the widest margins in the race's 80-year history.
This year at 3, she added the Coaching Club American Oaks Invitational Stakes (G1) to her résumé, dominating the field by an astounding 15 1/2 lengths, the race's largest margin of victory in nearly 50 years. In the Coaching Club she defeated multiple grade 1 winner and 2024 champion 2-year-old filly Immersive, while earning an 100 Equibase Speed Figure and 7 Ragozin, making her one of the fastest two-turn dirt fillies of her generation.
The only filly in the past 15 years to win both the Frizette and Coaching Club American Oaks, Scottish Lassie also placed in the Acorn Stakes (G1) at Saratoga Race Course, ahead of Kentucky Oaks (G1) heroine Good Cheer.
Scottish Lassie is from the first crop McKinzie, who is also the sire of Breeders' Cup World Championships hopefuls Baeza (Breeders' Cup Classic, G1), and Chancer McPatrick (Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile, G1).
Her dam, Bodebabe, is a winning half sister to stakes winner Windmill (Street Sense ), and to the dam of Crown the Buckeye, a multiple stakes winner at 2 in 2025. Scottish Lassie's second dam, Zaharias, is a full sister to grade 1 winner Visionaire and a half sister to grade 1 winner Tara's Tango and to multiple grade 1-placed, grade 3 winner Scarlet Strike.
