HALL OF CHAMPIONS

British Idiom

Jockey

Javier Castellano
Trainer

Brad Cox
Owner

Dubb, Michael, The Elkstone Group, LLC, Madaket Stables LLC & Bethlehem Stables LLC  
Breeder

Hargus Sexton, Sandra Sexton and Silver Fern Farm LLC
Sire

Flashback
Dam

Rose and Shine

With her laid-back personality, British Idiom was well rested when she arrived in Keeneland’s saddling paddock for the “Win and You’re In” Darley Alcibiades (G1) Oct. 4.

“She’s a pretty cool filly,” trainer Brad Cox’s assistant Tessa Bisha said. “She took a nap before the race.”

Bisha got to know the filly well in the four months they spent together this spring and summer at Keeneland and then Ellis Park where British Idiom won her career debut on August 15. That race was her lone start prior to the Alcibiades.

“We knew she was good, but didn’t know how good,” Bisha said.

The Alcibiades was not originally on British Idiom’s schedule. Cox, who trained 2018 Longines Breeders’ Cup Distaff winner and champion Monomoy Girl, was pointing her to the Pocahontas Stakes (G2) Sept. 14 at Churchill Downs, but the plan was scrapped when British Idiom experienced a mild illness.

“She’s a really nice filly that’s full of class,” Louisville native Cox said. “She never gets worked up. She does whatever you want in the mornings. She’s a good-sized filly and obviously capable of getting around two turns.”

The day after the Alcibiades, British Idiom shipped to Cox’s Churchill Downs division to continue Breeders’ Cup preparations. She was a $40,000 purchase at the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October yearling sale in Lexington.