BREEDERS’ CUP / RACE AT A GLANCE

* Race: Juvenile Fillies.

* Purse: $1 million.

* Distance: 1 1/16 miles.

* Track Record: 1:39 1/5, by Efervescente in 1993.

* Pre-entry field: Coup De Genie, Heavenly Prize, Meadow Rendezvous, Phone Chatter, Rhapsodic, Sardula, Stellar Cat, Tricky Code.

* Probable Favorite: Phone Chatter.

* Record of Favorites: Four winners out of nine (Twilight Ridge entry, 1985; Open Mind entry, 1988; Meadow Star, 1990; Eliza, 1992).

* Average $2 Win Payoff: $18.80.

* Race Analysis: Only nine horses were pre-entered in the Juvenile Fillies, the smallest number of any of the Breeders’ Cup races.

Of the eight remaining after the scratch of Astas Foxy Lady, only three of the 2-year-old fillies--Heavenly Prize, Sardula and Phone Chatter--have a legitimate chance at victory in the second Cup event.

A daughter of Seeking The Gold out of a Nijinsky II mare, Heavenly Prize didn’t begin her career until Sept. 15. She beat maidens by nine lengths, then scored a seven-length victory in the Grade I Frizette.

But shipping across the country and trying a different track and two turns for the first time might prove difficult for Heavenly Prize. However, the way she came away in both of her races suggests she will be up to the challenge.

Because her sire was the sprinter Phone Trick, Phone Chatter had a distance question to answer when she started in the 1 1/16-mile Oak Leaf last month. Positioned perfectly by Laffit Pincay, she got the job done in a race that was much more impressive than its male counterpart, the Norfolk, the next day. Phone Chatter has the home-course advantage over Heavenly Prize and a trainer, Richard Mandella, who has done little wrong in 1993.

Sardula looked like the second coming of Landaluce in her first two victories, but she was beaten by Phone Chatter in the Oak Leaf. The Storm Cat filly might improve in her second route race, but many believe she won’t.

As for the others, Rhapsodic appears to be a late-running sprinter, Tricky Code was beaten by eight lengths by Phone Chatter in the Oak Leaf, Stellar Cat has been facing lesser in Kentucky, Coup De Genie is a French-raced filly making her first start on dirt and Meadow Rendezvous figures to be part of the pace and make a hasty retreat.