Reigning Eclipse Award-winning female sprinter GOODNIGHT OLIVE (m, 5, Ghostzapper–Salty Strike, by Smart Strike) made light work of four rivals to make a successful return to the races in Saturday's GI Madison S. at Keeneland, the site of her victory in last year's GI Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint. Eased back off an early duel between Yuugiri (Shackleford) and Society (Gun Runner), the prohibitive 1-4 chalk was steered out into the three path to deliver her challenge and made the front under an Irad Ortiz, Jr. hold a good five-sixteenths of a mile from home. Asked to win her race in upper stretch, Goodnight Olive rolled down towards the inner rail as Maryquitecontrary (First Dude) tried to make a race of it, but the champion remained well clear and reported home a comfortable winner. Goodnight Olive is the fourth of her sire's daughters to prevail in the Madison since 2014 (Judy the Beauty and former Chad Brown trainees Paulassilverlining and Guarana). Sales history: $170,000 Ylg '19 FTKOCT. O-First Row Partners & Team Hanley; B-Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings LLC (KY); T-Chad Brown.
Saturday, Keeneland
MADISON S.-GI, $580,000, Keeneland, 4-8, 4yo/up, f/m, 7f, 1:23.12, ft.
1–GOODNIGHT OLIVE, 123, m, 5, by Ghostzapper
1st Dam: Salty Strike (MGSW, $485,266), by Smart Strike
2nd Dam: Lake Huron, by Salt Lake
3rd Dam: My Rainbow, by Lyphard
($170,000 Ylg '19 FTKOCT). O-First Row Partners and Team
Hanley; B-Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings LLC (KY); T-Chad
Brown; J-Irad Ortiz, Jr.. $372,000. Lifetime Record: Ch.
Female Sprinter, 8-7-1-0, $1,391,950. Werk Nick Rating: A.Â
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2–Maryquitecontrary, 123, f, 4, by First Dude
              1st Dam: Mary Kate 'n Kelly, by Mecke
              2nd Dam: Boots 'n Jackie, by Major Moran
              3rd Dam: Cherokee Ace, by Cherokee Fellow
1ST G1 BLACK TYPE. O/B-R. G. Lundock (FL); T-Claude R.
McGaughey III. $100,000.
3–Society, 123, f, 4, by Gun Runner
              1st Dam: Etiquette, by Tapit
              2nd Dam: Archduchess, by Pleasant Tap
              3rd Dam: My Marchesa, by Stately Don
O/B-Peter E. Blum Thoroughbreds, LLC (KY); T-Steven M.
Asmussen. $60,000.
Margins: 1, 4 1/4, 5 3/4. Odds: 0.37, 8.06, 4.57.
Also Ran: Cocktail Moments, Yuugiri. Click for the Equibase.com chart or the TJCIS.com PPs. VIDEO, sponsored by TVG.
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