A Breeders’ Cup victory that puts a young horse on the path toward the Kentucky Derby or Kentucky Oaks is virtually priceless. But Storm the Court and British Idiom, who each earned 20 points toward the spring classics with their victories in the Juvenile and Juvenile Fillies, respectively, both were bargain buys, costing just $100,000 combined. Storm the Court, by Breeders’ Cup Mile winner Court Vision and out of the winning Tejano Run mare My Tejana Storm, was bred in Kentucky by Stepping Stone Farm, which sold him for $5,000 as a short yearling at the 2018 Fasig-Tipton February mixed sale. The colt was then a $60,000 purchase by Exline-Border Racing from the Woodside Ranch consignment at this year’s Ocala Breeders’ Sales’ April sale of 2-year-olds in training. “We were looking at another one, which we bought also, but it was really a back-ring buy,” trainer Peter Eurton recalled. “And for $60,000, we felt that we had a good mover and a good athlete. Wasn’t a ton of pedigree on the page, but we got a horse that we felt had some talent.” :: DRF BREEDING LIVE: Real-time coverage of breeding and sales Storm the Court has now won two of his four starts after his $93.80 upset win in the Juvenile for the partnership of Exline-Border, David Bernsen, Susanna Wilson, and Dan Hudcock. “With his breeding, I think he’ll run farther,” Eurton said. “His father did, although he was primarily a grass horse. There might be grass racing in his future, but it would be hard to do that right now.” British Idiom surely locked up the Eclipse Award as the nation’s outstanding 2-year-old filly as she remained unbeaten in three starts by winning the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies, her second Grade 1 victory. The Flashback filly, who is trained by Brad Cox for Michael Dubb, Stuart Grant’s The Elkstone Group, Madaket Stables, and Bethlehem Stables, was bred in Kentucky by Hargus and Sandra Sexton and Silver Fern Farm. Out of the multiple-stakes-winning Mr. Sekiguchi mare Rose and Shine, British Idiom was selected for $40,000 from the Warrendale Sales consignment by bloodstock agent Liz Crow. “Liz has been buying horses for us for the last bunch of years,” Grant said. “We’re pretty tight with our budget, generally, when we’re buying horses, and Liz has been able to do just a tremendous job with not unlimited funds. And to be able to buy this filly today after Monomoy Girl not that long ago is just tremendous. And she’s just extremely talented, and we’re happy she’s on our team.”