Qatar Racing, Flurry Racing Stables and Big Aut Farms' Shedaresthedevil, upset winner of last September's Longines Kentucky Oaks (G1), headlines a field of seven fillies and mares entered Monday for Friday's 36th running of the $500,000 La Troienne presented by TwinSpires.com (G1).
Scheduled as the eighth race on Friday's 13-race Kentucky Oaks program at Churchill Downs, post time for the 1 1/16-mile La Troienne is 3:03 p.m. (all times Eastern). First post Friday is 10:30 a.m.
Trained by Brad Cox, Shedaresthedevil came off a five-month layoff to start 2021 with a victory in the Azeri (G2) at Oaklawn Park on March 13, defeating next-out G1 Apple Blossom winner Letruska in a battle to the wire. Regular rider Florent Geroux will be aboard and exit post two.
Two other Grade 1 winners will line up to challenge Shedaresthedevil: Peter Brant's Dunbar Road and WinStar Stablemates Racing's Paris Lights.
Trained by Chad Brown, Dunbar Road will be making her 2021 debut after closing out 2020 with a third-place finish behind champion Monomoy Girl in the Breeders' Cup Distaff (G1) at Keeneland. Winner of the 2019 Alabama (G1), Dunbar Road will be ridden by Irad Ortiz Jr. from post three.
Paris Lights, 2-for-2 at Churchill Downs in her career for trainer Bill Mott, won the Coaching Club American Oaks (G1) last summer and opened 2021 with a victory in the Distaff Handicap (G3) at Aqueduct on April 2. Tyler Gaffalione has the mount from post five.
The field for the La Troienne, with riders and weights from the rail out, is:
- Envoutante (Brian Hernandez Jr., 118 pounds)
- Shedaresthedevil (Geroux, 123)
- Dunbar Road (Irad Ortiz Jr., 118)
- Bajan Girl (Luis Saez, 118)
- Paris Lights (Tyler Gaffalione, 118)
- Sanenus (CHI) (Javier Castellano, 120)
- Finite (Ricardo Santana Jr., 118)
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