Splendora became only the seventh Maryland-bred Thoroughbred to win a Breeders’ Cup race when she romped home in the Filly & Mare Sprint at Del Mar in November.

“We thought we had the best horse, you know (trainer) Bob (Baffert) and I both thought we had the best horse by at least two lengths against anybody else,” owner Mike Talla of Talla Racing LLC said recently.

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