Grade 1-placed Vixen has been precocious from the start. She made her racing debut on July 27 at Ellis Park in a 5 ½-furlong maiden special weight on the turf. Although she was bumped at the start and forced to race in the rear, she rallied to finish third in a field of nine.

Given her game effort, it is not too surprising she broke her maiden at second asking. This time, Vixen lined up against seven other fillies in a maiden special weight at Ellis on Aug. 19 going a mile on the turf. She stalked the pace early on before taking command in the stretch and drawing off to win by 4 ¾ lengths.

For her next race, Vixen jumped up to stakes company in the Sept. 14 Johnnie Walker Natalma Stakes (G1) at Woodbine. Always forwardly placed in the 11-horse field, Vixen was game all the way to the wire but finished second by a neck to her stablemate And One More Time.

Mark Casse trains Vixen for D. J. Stable, LLC. The family run operation bought Vixen for $200,000 this April at the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co.’s 2-year-olds in training sale.

D. J. Stable won the 2022 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) with Wonder Wheel, and they were victorious in the same race in 2018 as the co-owners of Jaywalk. Len Green and his late wife, Lois, named the stable after their children. Son Jonathan, who is also the host of the popular racing podcast Rail Talk, manages it now.

Vixen was bred in Kentucky by Jason Edward Howard. She is by Vekoma and out of the winning Noble Mission (GB) mare Top Mission.