Month: October 2022

Deuce Greathouse's Towhead, who just missed breaking her maiden by a nose in the Aristocrat Gaming Juvenile Fillies (L) at Kentucky Downs on Sept. 3, headlines a field of 12 2-year-old fillies plus four also-eligibles entered Tuesday for the 32nd running of the $350,000 JPMorgan Chase Jessamine (G2) going 1 1/16 miles on the Keeneland turf course.

The JPMorgan Chase Jessamine is a “Win and You're In” race with the winner earning a fees-paid berth into the $1 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1) to be run here Nov. 4. Two JPMorgan Chase Jessamine winners have come back to win the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf: Aunt Pearl (IRE) in 2020 and Rushing Fall in 2017.

The JPMorgan Chase Jessamine will go as the eighth race Friday with a 4:44 p.m. ET post time.

Towhead, trained by Mike Maker, has a 4-0-2-2 record although she crossed the finish line first at Saratoga July 24 in a race that was declared a no contest because of issues in removing the starting gate from the course. Tyler Gaffalione has the mount Friday and will start from post position 12.

Towhead finished 9 lengths in front of third-place runner C C Cruise Control at Kentucky Downs with Knockyoursocksoff another three-quarters of a length back in fourth.

David Menard's C C Cruise Control, trained by Kenny McPeek, is a maiden winner on grass at Ellis Park. Corey Lanerie retains the mount and will break from post two.

Town and Country Racing's Knockyoursocksoff won at first asking on the turf at Colonial Downs for trainer Chris Block. Flavien Prat has the mount and will exit post 11.

The field for the JPMorgan Chase Jessamine, with riders and weights from the rail out, is:

1. Sabalenka (Jose Ortiz, 118 pounds)
2. C C Cruise Control (Lanerie, 118)
3. Delight (Luis Saez, 118)
4. Promise of Hope (Edgar Morales, 118)
5. Blind Spot (Edgard Zayas, 120)
6. Happy Gal (Joel Rosario, 118)
7. Bling (Rafael Bejarano, 118)
8. Dulcia (Joe Talamo, 118)
9. Recognize (Junior Alvarado, 118)
10. Stephanie's Charm (Inoel Beato, 118)
11. Knockyoursocksoff (Prat, 118)
12. Towhead (Gaffalione, 118).

Also-Eligibles: Tax Implications (GB) (Irad Ortiz Jr., 118), Southlawn (Joe Talamo, 118), Play the Music (Joel Rosario, 118), Aztec Nights (Ricardo Santana Jr., 118).

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Paradise Farms Corp. and David Staudacher's Special Reserve will face seven rivals Friday in his bid to become the seventh back-to-back winner of the $350,000 Stoll Keenon Ogden Phoenix (G2) going 6 furlongs on the main track.

Scheduled as the seventh race on the Fall Meet's opening-day 10-race card, the Stoll Keenon Ogden Phoenix is a “Win and You're In” race for the $2 million Qatar Racing Breeders' Cup Sprint (G1) to be run here Nov. 5. Post time for the Stoll Keenon Ogden Phoenix is 4:12 p.m. ET with first post at 1 p.m.

Trained by Mike Maker, Special Reserve won last year's Stoll Keenon Ogden Phoenix as the 6-5 favorite by a neck over Aloha West, who would come back four weeks later and win the Breeders' Cup Sprint at Del Mar.

Two Stoll Keenon Ogden Phoenix winners have won the Breeders' Cup Sprint with the most recent being Work All Week in 2014 and Runhappy in 2015.

Fourth in the Breeders' Cup Sprint last year, Special Reserve has run twice this year and enters Friday's race off a 3½-length victory in the Senator Robert Byrd Memorial at Mountaineer on Aug. 6. Tyler Gaffalione has the mount Friday from post position two.

The field for the Stoll Keenon Ogden Phoenix, with riders and weights from the rail out, is:

1. Sir Alfred James (Rafael Bejarano, 120 pounds)
2. Special Reserve (Gaffalione, 120)
3. Top Gunner (Rey Gutierrez, 120)
4. Baytown Bear (Jack Gilligan, 120)
5. Sibelius (Junior Alvarado, 120)
6. Necker Island (Francisco Arrieta, 120)
7. Manny Wah (Corey Lanerie, 118)
8. Long Range Toddy (Paco Lopez, 120)

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Lucky Seven Stable's Fun and Feisty, winner of the Pocahontas (G3) at Churchill Downs going 1 1/16 miles in her most recent start, and D. J. Stable's Wonder Wheel, runner-up in the Spinaway (G1) at Saratoga, headline a field of 14 2-year-old fillies entered Tuesday for Friday's 71st running of the $500,000 Darley Alcibiades (G1).

The 1 1/16-mile main track test is a Breeders' Cup Challenge race that offers the winner a fees-paid berth to the $2 million NetJets Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) to be run here Nov. 4. Four Darley Alcibiades winners have gone on to win the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies with the most recent being British Idiom in 2019.

The Darley Alcibiades serves as the centerpiece of Friday's 10-race program that begins at 1 p.m. ET and kicks off the 17-day Fall Meet that runs through Saturday, Oct. 29. The Darley Alcibiades will go as the ninth race with a 5:16 p.m. post time.

A winner of two of four starts, Fun and Feisty is trained by five-time Darley Alcibiades winner Kenny McPeek, whose most recent victory in the race came in 2020 with Simply Ravishing. Julien Leparoux, a two-time Darley Alcibiades winner, has the mount Friday and will exit from post position nine.

McPeek also will send out Kentucky Downs maiden winner Stellar Lady. Owned by Tommie Lewis, James Chambers, Craig Benoit and Magdalena Racing, Stellar Lady will break from post three and be ridden by Brian Hernandez Jr.

Wonder Wheel, a winner of two of three starts including the Debutante (L) at Churchill Downs in July, is trained by three-time Darley Alcibiades winner Mark Casse, whose most recent winner in the race was Heavenly Love in 2017. Tyler Gaffalione, who has been aboard for all of Wonder Wheel's starts, has the call Friday from post position one.

Three other fillies that ran in the 7-furlong Spinaway are in the field Friday: third-place finisher Kaling, owned by Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and trained by Todd Pletcher; Valene Farms' Sabra Tuff, who finished fifth for trainer Dallas Stewart; and Clarkland Farm's Just Cindy, who finished sixth for trainer Eddie Kenneally.

The field for the Darley Alcibiades, with riders from the rail out, is:

1. Wonder Wheel (Gaffalione)
2. Chop Chop (Joel Rosario)
3. Stellar Lady (Hernandez Jr.)
4. Raging Sea (Jose Ortiz)
5. Xigera (Joe Talamo)
6. Mustang Lady (Rafael Bejarano)
7. Essaouira (Irad Ortiz Jr.)
8. Infinite Diamond (Florent Geroux)
9. Fun and Feisty (Leparoux)
10. Kaling (John Velazquez)
11. Just Cindy (Luis Saez)
12. Take Charge Briana (Flavien Prat)
13. Sabra Tuff (Paco Lopez)
14. Boss Lady Bailey (Rey Gutierrez)

All starters will carry 122 pounds.

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