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Chriselliam scores for Hills & Hughes

First Breeders Cup win for Richard Hughes, pictured earlier in the week with a security manFirst Breeders Cup win for Richard Hughes, pictured earlier in the week with a security man
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Chriselliam, trained by Charlie Hills and ridden by Richard Hughes, was tremendously impressive in winning the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf at Santa Anita.

A surprise 28/1 winner of the Fillies' Mile at Newmarket, the daughter of Iffraaj showed that Group One success to be no fluke, travelling smoothly all the way and rocketing clear once Hughes pressed the button.

Testa Rossi was second but the winner was never in any danger, looking better the further she went.

It was a first all round as a maiden Breeders' Cup winner for Hills and Hughes, and Chriselliam is part-owned by former jockey Willie Carson, who endured Breeders' Cup heartache in 1990 when Dayjur jumped a shadow under Carson and forfeited victory at the meeting.