If Europeans are to score their third straight victory in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf, to be run at Churchill Downs Nov. 3, they are going to have to outrun as many as five Chad Brown-trained fillies to do it.

Brown, the Eclipse Award-winning trainer in North America the past two years, pre-entered Sistercharlie, Fourstar Crook, A Raving Beauty, Santa Monica and Thais -  representing a third of the race’s 15 pre-entries announced by the Breeders’ Cup on Wednesday. This group falls just shy of the six-horse pre-entry total of those from Europe, a group led by Wild Illusion and Magic Wand, the one-two finishers, respectively, from the Group 1 Prix de l’Opera at Longchamp Oct. 7.

DRF will have a full write up on the Filly and Mare Turf online shortly, but for now, here are the pre-entries. There is one alternate, Fuhriously Kissed.

A Raving Beauty
Athena
Eziyra
Fourstar Crook
Magic Wand
Magical
Mom's On Strike
Paved
Princess Yaiza
Santa Monica
Sistercharlie
Smart Choice
Thais
Wild Illusion

Alternate: Fuhriously Kissed

A Raving Beauty has second preference in the Mile
Magical has first preference in the Turf
Fuhriously Kissed has second preference in the Distaff