Bonny South made 8-5 favorite in Falls City

Juddmonte Farms’ $400,000 Fair Grounds Oaks (Grade 2) winner Bonny South was made the 8-5 favorite in a competitive field of nine fillies and mares that were entered in Thursday’s 105th running of the $200,000 Falls City (G2) at Churchill Downs.

Trained by Brad Cox, Bonny South was a highly touted 3-year-old filly in the winter after her 2 1/4-length victory in the Fair Grounds Oaks. Cox shipped Bonny South to Saratoga over the summer, where she was the runner-up behind Swiss Skydiver in the $500,000 Alabama (G1). Bonny South will enter Thursday’s Falls City following a narrow defeat in the Oct. 3, $250,000 Black Eyed Susan (G2) at Pimlico.

“We decided to point for the Falls City rather than the Breeders’ Cup,” said Cox, who won last year’s Falls City with Mylady Curlin. “We gave her plenty of time after the Black Eyed Susan, and she’s done very well in her preparation for this. I think she fits in really well with this field.”

The 1 1/8-mile Falls City has been run on Thanksgiving Day beneath the historic Twin Spires since 1978. It will go as the featured event in Race 10 of 11 with a post time of 3:53 p.m. ET There will be a special first post of 11:30 a.m. holiday race program.