Breeders' Cup Juvenile fillies runner-up Dayoutoftheoffice works toward 2021 debut

Siena Farm and trainer Tim Hamm’s Dayoutoftheoffice, runner-up in last fall’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) here, took another step toward returning to the races Thursday morning by working 5 furlongs in 1:01.40 over a track labeled as good.

“It was uneventful and good,” Hamm said of the work on a chilly morning. “I got her in :12s all the way around.”

Working on her own shortly after 9 a.m., Dayoutoftheoffice reeled off fractions of :12.20, :24.40, :36.40, :49 and 1:01.40 with a 6-furlong gallop out in 1:14 and seven-eighths in 1:28.

Hamm has targeted the 7-furlong, $300,000 Eight Belles (G2) Presented by Smithfield on April 30 at Churchill Downs as the starting point for Dayoutoftheoffice’s 2021 campaign.

“She will have one more work and it will be here or Churchill Downs,” Hamm said.