A new tradition is born as fillies and mares get their own Breeders Bowl sprint.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The distaff sprint will cover seven furlongs for a $1,000,000 purse.<\/P> With no race history to go on, it\u2019s tough to say how this will play out, but there will be no question who is best after this race.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The top four rated three-year-olds join eight of the top ten rated older sprinters.<\/P> By late October, three-year-olds are expected to be able to run with their older sisters, but the oddsmakers don\u2019t agree.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>None of the six three-year-olds have morning lines under 10-1.<\/P> Most of the field prefers to rally from just off the pace, and we can expect to see the youngsters set that pace.<\/P> With six of the runners assigned odds between 5-1 and 9-1, this looks like a tough race for anyone hoping to cash a pick 6 \u2013 it could be anybody\u2019s race.<\/P> Here is a look at the field:<\/P> PP 1 SONG OF THE HAWK(KY) <\/STRONG><\/SPAN>(UNBRIDLED’S SONG x MACHIAVELLIAN x ALYDAR), 4yo, bred and trained by sheikabner<\/I><\/B> (Sheikabner Stables, 20%) style S, odds: 7-1<\/P> The horse:<\/B>\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She hasn\u2019t won since January, but she looks like she is rounding back into form.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She can\u2019t be happy to see the 5 horse in here \u2013 Hawk has been second to that mare in her past two races.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She was making nasty moves late in those two races, and she\u2019ll be flying late again here.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>With her improving form it would be no surprise to see her turn the tables on that one today with all the marbles on the line.<\/P> She\u2019s won the Grade I World Cup Ladies Long Sprint as a three-year-old, the Grade II Kentucky Lassie Stakes, the Grade III The That\u2019s My Baby Stakes, and the Grade III Kentucky Milady Stakes.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She also has three other graded stakes finishes in the money.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Just a piece of the purse will put her over the $1 million mark in earnings.<\/P> Most impressively, at seven furlongs on fast dirt, she has seven wins in nine starts.<\/P> The trainer:<\/B>\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Sheikabner, better known elsewhere as Kingab, is having an outstanding year, winning at a 29% clip and capturing six wins in 21 stakes races.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Sheikabner supports the CR Racers.<\/P> In an interview, he felt that Song of the Hawk has been training beautifully and noted that she\u2019d be coming in off a three race win streak if not for 2 \u00be lengths in the past three races.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Most impressively, he describes the \u201cgorgeous grey lady\u201d as one of his favorite mares of all time.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>That\u2019s saying a lot<\/P> PP 2 MISCALCULATION(KY) <\/STRONG><\/SPAN>(UNBRIDLED’S SONG x A.P. INDY x STORM CAT), 3yo, bred and trained by fanatical<\/I><\/B> (Circusham Stables, 27%) style P, odds: 11-1<\/P> The horse:<\/B>\u00a0 <\/SPAN>With her eight wins and two seconds in only eleven starts, this filly has roughly twice as many stakes points as any other runner in the field.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>This scratch bred has rarely been tested, and her many fans are drooling over the double-digit odds.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She was second last time around two turns against the best three-year-old routers, but at this distance, few three-year-olds have been able to challenge her.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She did finish behind Vheissu back in June, and she disappointed as the favorite in the Smackdown.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Otherwise, it\u2019s hard to find a flaw.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>How will she do against older?\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She won her lone race that was open to older fillies and mares, but it was a weak owner-restricted race, so she has yet to answer that question.<\/P> Fittingly, this filly with the mathematical name won both the Grade I Correlation Coefficient and the Grade I Cosine Cup.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She also won the Grade I Circusham Derby and the Grade II Yanta Snez.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She has two other ITM finishes in graded stakes.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>At seven furlongs, she has two wins in three starts.<\/P> The Trainer:<\/B>\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Fanatical has won an astonishing 37% of his races in 2008.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>All of his graded races have been with Miscalculation, and she is four out of six.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>He has also won one overnight stakes in five tries with other horses.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Fanatical is a member of GR Simsters.<\/P> PP 3 STIRLING FORM <\/STRONG><\/SPAN>(A.P. INDY x DYNAFORMER x STORM BIRD), 5 yo, bred by tmica<\/I><\/B>, trained by jrogue2<\/I><\/B> (Jrogue Stables, 20%), style: P, odds: 8-1<\/P> The horse: <\/B>She hasn\u2019t embarrassed herself – she\u2019s been running triple digit speed figures and finishing in the front half of some very tough fields, but she hasn\u2019t been able to close the deal in a while.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Her form\u2019s been less than sterling as she hasn\u2019t won a race in over nine months and hasn\u2019t been in the money since March.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She likes to rally from off the pace, and those sorts can, from time to time, throw in an unexpectedly strong effort.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>That appears to be her best hope.<\/P> She\u2019s run two graded stakes twice: The Unthinkable and the Dancer Cap.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Unfortunately her more recent runs in both races have been worse than her earlier.<\/P> Her dam was a router in her brief career and A.P. Indy is overwhelmingly a routing sire, and this shrewd trainer has tried a distance with her, but she showed she did not like it.<\/P> She has won the Grade II Unthinkable and the Grade II Dandelion, and she has three more graded finishes in the money.<\/P> The trainer:<\/B>\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Jrogue2 is winning 15% of his races this year, and is one of 13 in graded stakes and three out of 29 overall in stakes races this year.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>With over 18,000 races and a consistently high winning percentage, Jrogue Stables is always a force to be reckoned with.<\/P> PP 4 LA VINOTINTO <\/STRONG><\/SPAN>(MINESHAFT x KINGMAMBO x STORM CAT), 5 yo, bred and trained by venezolano<\/I><\/B> (Otto Haack ( The horse: <\/B>This mare, named in honor of the Venezuelan national football team, is one of the few in here that is coming in off a win.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The fact that that was a track-restricted allowance win tarnishes the victory, but she has some other reasons to favor her.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She is the only early speed horse among the older runners.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The race has a surprising lack of early speed, so her style may work in her behalf.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>In three of her last five races she has run speed figures below 100, and today\u2019s race will certainly take a figure in excess of 110, so can we excuse them?\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Well, last race she may have run only as fast as she needed to to dispatch weak competition.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>In the other two slow races she was unable to get near the lead early.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>This mare needs to be near, if not on, the lead.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Against this field, especially as all the other early speed is well outside of her, she should certainly be able to be at the front.<\/P> Dam was a turf specialist, and La Vinotinto has shown she likes the grass, but, then, she also likes dirt sprints.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>At this distance, she has four wins and nine ITM finishes in ten starts.<\/P> She is a recent winner of the Grade II Delta Tau Chi Sprint and has two other seconds in Grade II stakes. <\/P> The Trainer: <\/B>Venezolano is winning 25% of his races this year, and has three wins in 14 stakes races.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The stable is a member of Hispano Parlante.<\/P> PP 5 DOCTOR DANZIG <\/STRONG><\/SPAN>(SPEIGHTSTOWN x The horse:<\/B>\u00a0 <\/SPAN>\u201cWhat a year,\u201d notes her trainer.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>\u201cShe began the year eligible for N4L, and comes into the Breeders bowl off a two race winning streak over Song of the Hawk.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>To have any horse beat that one is reason to celebrate, but to do it twice in a row with the same horse?\u201d\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Ace is a bit apprehensive about doing it three times in a row, but there\u2019s no real reason to think it won\u2019t happen.\u00a0 <\/SPAN><\/P> The recent success has vaulted the Doctor into the number two slot among older sprinters.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>And the success has been recent.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The five-year-old had not even tried a stakes race until April.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Now she has three wins in her last four starts, including wins in the Grade I Dancer Cap and the Grade III The Girls Just Right.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>That\u2019s just astonishing for a horse that started her career with three less than awe-inspiring wins in her first 15 races.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Maybe there\u2019s hope for some of my nags.<\/P> The trainer:<\/B>\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Ace, no stranger to huge wins, is going great with her manon stable this year.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The barn is winning 25% of its races and has won six stakes in just 14 starts.\u00a0 <\/SPAN><\/P> PP 6 CLARK COUNTY(KY) <\/STRONG><\/SPAN>(SEEKING THE GOLD x NIJINSKY II x HAIL TO REASON), 4yo, bred by lopiccolo<\/I><\/B>, trained by simsters3<\/I><\/B> (The Evil Empire, 17%) style: P, odds: 9-1<\/P> The horse:<\/B>\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Lenny has two running in this race, and he gives the better chance to this one over Fifth Street.\u00a0 <\/SPAN> The trainer:<\/B>\u00a0 <\/SPAN>With the simsters3 stable, Lenny has won over 27% of his races and banked $1.2 million this year.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>It\u2019s never a surprise to see him in the winner\u2019s circle.<\/P> PP 7 BLACK GOLD COAL <\/STRONG><\/SPAN>(SUMMER SQUALL x ROBERTO x GRAUSTARK), 6yo, bred by mouskers<\/I><\/B>, trained by jrogue3<\/I><\/B> (Jrogue Stables, 19%), style: P, odds: 7-1<\/P> The horse: <\/B>This one gave her trainer options.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The six-year-old is ranked 10th<\/SUP> in both the sprint and the classic divisions.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She apparently doesn\u2019t want anything to do with longer than 8.5 furlongs, so this was the prudent choice, though she hasn\u2019t won a sprint since February, and she threw a real clunker in the Dance Cap, her last try at seven furlongs.\u00a0 <\/SPAN><\/P> She was late to the races, not making her first start until December of her four-year-old season, but she\u2019s been well worth the wait for her patient connections.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Her three wins and six in-the-money finishes in her ten graded stakes make her always dangerous.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>This race might be a furlong and a half short for her, but it would not be a shock if she won anyway.<\/P> The trainer: <\/B>The jrogue3 stable has been very strong in 2008.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>They have eight stakes wins in 24 tries, and overall they\u2019ve won $1 million and 19% of their races.<\/P> PP 8 MRS. STARK REALITY <\/STRONG><\/SPAN>(MR. GREELEY x GRAUSTARK x IN REALITY), 6yo, bred and trained by stablebums<\/I><\/B> (Smubs Stables, 17%), style: S, odds: 5-1*<\/P> The horse<\/B>:\u00a0 <\/SPAN>How do you get to be the number one rated sprinting mare?\u00a0 <\/SPAN>One race that helped was her race two starts ago when she was second by a head to the boys in the Grade II Booker T.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>Surprisingly, you can be the number one rated mare with but one graded win.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>In Mrs. S\u2019s case that win was the Grade II Unthinkable back in April.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She figures to be joining Song of the Hawk at the back of the field, and look for them to try their moves together.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The pace does not look blistering.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>We\u2019ll see if that hurts these two late chargers.\u00a0 <\/SPAN><\/P> The trainer:<\/B> What a shrewd move they made in acquiring this mare.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She was racing in long turf races above her conditions when they claimed her and switched her to dirt sprints where she ran off five straight wins.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>This year, their record is a 15% winning rate overall and 20% in stakes.<\/P> PP 9 SARACEN(KY) <\/STRONG><\/SPAN>(STORM CAT x MR. PROSPECTOR x BUCKPASSER), 3yo, bred by temp1<\/I><\/B>, trained by dixiedotco<\/I><\/B> (Dixiedotco Racing, 26%), style: E, odds: 24-1<\/P> The horse:<\/B>\u00a0 <\/SPAN>At 24-1, she\u2019s the longest shot in the race, yet she\u2019s been up to all the challenges she\u2019s faced so far.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>She already has a Grade I, II, and III win, and she\u2019s two for two at the distance.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>The long odds are due to speed figures that don\u2019t stand up to what the older fillies and mares have been running.\u00a0 <\/SPAN>But, as Dixiedotco points out, her running style may be her salvation.