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Summer Starlet Punches Her Ticket to the Breeders' Cup

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Equestrian rider in helmet training a gray horse in a sunny outdoor setting.
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Summer Starlet, a two-year-old filly by City of Light out of the Street Sense mare Act Now, dominated Saturday's Grade 1 Spinaway Stakes. The race ran under "Win and You're In" conditions, meaning her victory secures a place in this fall's Breeders' Cup. Thoroughbred Daily News had already tabbed her a Rising Star, presented by Hagyard, before the race, and the result did nothing to argue against it. The pedigree behind the performance — City of Light over a Street Sense mare — is the kind that draws notice in a division still taking shape.

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With reporting from Thoroughbred Daily News.

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