Can Mi Sueno continue the streak?

Mi Sueno, who won Saturday's $300,000 Grade 1 Darley Debutante under Michael Baze, has a grand recent tradition to live up to this fall.

Three of the past six Debutante winners have gone on to win the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies, including Stardom Bound last fall, Sweet Catomine (2004) and Halfbridled (2003), and the connections for Mi Sueno definitely have Breeders' Cup aspirations.

Is she good enough?

Well, her final time of 1:23.78 for the seven furlongs was not earth-shattering. Last year, Stardom Bound covered the distance in 1:22.50. The other two Juvenile Fillies winners won the Debutante when it was run on dirt, so it's difficult to compare the times.

Mi Sueno's connections believe she'll get better with distance, and being by Pulpit out of Madcap Escapade, she does have every right to get better around two turns. The track was not exceedingly fast Saturday, so that might have had something to do with the mediocre time.

And consider this -- when Sweet Catomine won the Debutante on dirt, her time was 1:24.18, which is very ordinary on any type of surface.

Don't judge Mi Sueno on her final time in the Debutante. Judge her by how she runs in the Oak Leaf Stakes on Oct. 4 during the Oak Tree meet. She'll be running two turns for the first time and we'll get a better feel for how talented she really is.