LEXINGTON, Ky. – With a full, 14-horse field that includes four undefeated fillies and nary a single starter who finished worse than third in their previous outing, the $1 million Juvenile Fillies Turf is arguably the most wide open and inscrutable race, from a handicapping standpoint, not only Friday but of all 14 events on this year’s Breeders’ Cup program. Aunt Pearl, the tepid morning-line favorite at 3-1, Plum Ali, Madone, and Campanelle all enter the one-mile Juvenile Fillies Turf without a blemish on their résumé. They’ll square off against a lineup that includes Group 1-placed European invaders Miss Amulet, Oodnadatta, and Mother Earth; Grade 1 placed Alda; and Campanelle’s Grade 3-winning stablemate Royal Approval. The field is so strong that fillies like Editor At Large, Spanish Loveaffair, and Union Gables – all coming off graded stakes placings – are listed at odds of 12-1 to 20-1 on the morning line. Aunt Pearl is perfect in two starts, most recently registering a 2 1/2-length decision over Spanish Loveaffair at Keeneland going 1 1/16 miles in the Grade 2 Jessamine. Aunt Pearl, who led at every call in both her races, is favorably drawn in the bulky lineup, breaking from post 5 under Florent Geroux. :: Play the Breeders’ Cup with DRF! Visit our Breeders’ Cup shop for Packages, PPs, Clocker Reports, Betting Strategies, and more “She’s super talented, obviously, and she has the race here at Keeneland, which I think is worth a lot,” trainer Brad Cox said. “And I think the cutback from a mile and one-sixteenth to one mile is a positive. Her last two works at Churchill Downs were phenomenal and should set her up for a big effort on Friday.” Cox also believes Aunt Pearl doesn’t necessarily have to be in front to win the Juvenile Fillies Turf. “We’ll just play the break and leave it up to Florent,” Cox said. “We’ve set her right beside or off horses in her last couple of works, and she rated nicely. She doesn’t pull too much. She seems like she’s very manageable, if need be.” Like Aunt Pearl, trainer Wesley Ward’s duo of Campanelle and Royal Approval figure to be forwardly placed, with both stretching out around two turns for the first time in the Juvenile Fillies Turf. :: BREEDERS’ CUP 2020: See DRF’s special section with top contenders, odds, comments, news, and more for each division The well-traveled Campanelle, undefeated in three starts, returns stateside after winning the Group 2 Queen Mary at Royal Ascot and Group 1 Prix Morny at Deauville at distances of five and six furlongs, respectively, earlier this season. “I think her most impressive win was the Queen Mary because her schedule was so tight leading up to the race,” Ward said. “She flew right from Gulfstream Park to Amsterdam, vanned from there all the way to Ascot, and won with authority just 20 days after her first victory in Florida. That was pretty unbelievable. She had plenty of time to prepare for the Morny after that and won that race easily.” Royal Approval finished far back after a slow start in the Queen Mary, but rebounded with two straight victories, including the Grade 3 Matron at Belmont Park just three weeks ago when winning by three-quarters of a length as the prohibitive 1-2 favorite over a course rated firm. “She really wants no part of anything but firm turf, and the course was really not that for the Matron, they were still kicking it up pretty good there,” Ward said. “I was expecting her to win a lot easier based on her breezes over firm ground at Keeneland leading up to the race, and it’s a testament to her ability that she was able to still win over a course she really didn’t handle that well. She needs a lot of sunshine and for the course to firm up here by Friday.” Campanelle and Royal Approval will break alongside one another from posts 10 and 11, with Frankie Dettori on Campanelle and Irad Ortiz Jr. aboard Royal Approval. “Although neither of them have been beyond six furlongs, I don’t feel two turns will be an issue,” Ward said. “They are both big fillies who should appreciate more distance. If they’d been in Bobby Frankel’s barn, they probably would have made their first start at a mile. They both have speed, but I’m sure my riders won’t work against one another, and neither should have a problem rating if they need to.” A contentious pace would benefit Plum Ali and Madone, both of whom are unbeaten in three starts, all of those victories coming from midpack and beyond. Plum Ali captured the Juvenile Fillies Stakes going a mile at Kentucky Downs and Grade 2 Miss Grillo at 1 1/16 miles by a combined margin of five lengths after winning her debut by two lengths this summer at Saratoga. “She’s run at three different racetracks with three different jockeys and is very versatile,” trainer Christophe Clement said. “Those are the positives. The negative is that we’re going to the Breeders’ Cup where there are an awful lot of other nice fillies in the field. She couldn’t be doing any better. My job is to get her there in the best shape possible. After that, I’ll leave everything else up to Joel Rosario.” Madone has rallied to win her first three starts by a combined margin of less than two lengths, rallying from beyond midpack after the opening half-mile on each occasion. A two-time stakes winner, each of her victories have come at a mile, with her most recent performance a game neck decision over Tetragonal in the Surfer Girl at Santa Anita. Trainer Graham Motion will try to defend the Juvenile Fillies Turf title he won a year ago with Sharing when sending out the steadily improving Alda, runner-up behind Lady Speightspeare when stretching to a mile for the first time in the Grade 1 Natalma at Woodbine. She, too, has a late-running style that would benefit from a quick early pace. Trainer Chad Brown won the inaugural Juvenile Fillies Turf in 2008 with Maram and has captured the race four times over the last six years. He’ll be represented by the Irish-bred Editor At Large, who finished third, 2 1/4 lengths behind Plum Ali, in the Miss Grillo, but could be compromised breaking from the extreme outside post 14 on Friday.