Belmont Park Owns the Week's Fastest Maidens, and a Repole Uncle Mo Filly Is Among Them

Every one of the week's five quickest first-time winners came out of Belmont Park, a sweep for the New York track in the latest tally of maiden Beyer Speed Figures for Oct. 5 through 11. One of the five is Badittude, a two-year-old filly who broke her maiden going a mile in the second race on Oct. 7. She is by Uncle Mo out of the Bernardini mare Donatella and runs for Repole Stable. Her winning effort earned a Beyer Speed Figure of 82, a number that puts a juvenile filly in company with the best debut performances anywhere in the country that week. For a yard watching its young stock come through, a figure like that at a mile on a Belmont afternoon is the kind of line that gets a pedigree page pulled out and read again. That the list belongs entirely to one track says something about the depth of the maiden ranks on Long Island this fall.

With reporting from Thoroughbred Daily News.