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Grade 1 Winner Juliet Foxtrot Headlines Mint Julep, Saturday’s Downs After Dark Feature

Juddmonte's Grade 1-winning homebred Juliet Foxtrot (GB) leads a field of 11 fillies and mares that were entered in Saturday night's $150,000 Old Forester Mint Julep (Grade 3) at Churchill Downs.

The 1 1/16-mile Old Forester Mint Julep, run over the Matt Winn Turf Course, is carded as Race 9 with a post time of 10:11 p.m. (all times Eastern). The 11-race Downs After Dark program gets underway at 6 p.m.

Juliet Foxtrot, trained by Brad Cox, cruised to a two-length victory in the April 10 Jenny Wiley (G1) at Keeneland. The daughter of Dansili (GB) was transferred to the care of Cox in 2019 from European-based conditioner Charles Hills. Since arriving stateside, Juliet Foxtrot has run some of her best races including victories in the 2019 Modesty (G3) and the 2020 Gallorette (G3).

The six-time winner will be ridden by Tyler Gaffalione from post No. 2.

Other top horses that entered the Mint Julep are Robert and Lawana Low's four-time stakes heroine She'sonthewarpath and Stonestreet Stables' $150,000 Indiana Grand Stakes winner Hendy Woods.

The complete field for the Old Forester Mint Julep from the rail out (with jockey and trainer):

  1. Mintd (IRE) (Ricardo Santana Jr., Brendan Walsh)
  2. Juliet Foxtrot (GB) (Gaffalione, Cox)
  3. Hendy Woods (Florent Geroux, Mark Casse)
  4. Vezpa (BRZ) (Joe Talamo, Paulo Lobo)
  5. Lashara (GB) (Julien Leparoux, Mark Casse)
  6. Dominga (Shaun Bridgmohan, Cox)
  7. Flash n' Dance (Marcelino Pedroza, Marcus O'Donnell)
  8. Tuned (GB) (David Cohen, Graham Motion)
  9. Crystal Ball (James Graham, Rodolphe Brisset)
  10. Sister Hanan (Corey Lanerie, Ben Colebrook)
  11. She'sonthewarpath (Adam Beschizza, Steve Margolis)

Wagering is available online at www.TwinSpires.com, the official ADW of Churchill Downs Incorporated.

Saturday is Downs After Dark – Rock the Downs presented by Budweiser. The evening of entertainment features live racing, music from Rock United on the Plaza Stage, themed cocktail specials, LED jugglers and stilt walkers from CirqueLouis and music performances from the Pagoda. Guests are encouraged to break out their best rocker wear including vintage band shirts, leather jackets, denim, plaid or even glam.

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Essential Quality To Return To Churchill Downs Monday

Louisville-native trainer Brad Cox recorded arguably the biggest win in his young career Saturday when Godolphin's champion colt Essential Quality conquered the third jewel of the Triple Crown – the $1.5 million Grade 1 Belmont Stakes. The Tapit colt is scheduled to return to his home stall at Churchill Downs' Barn 22 Monday afternoon.

“We're so thrilled for this horse,” Cox said. “He showed why he's a champion. A lot of people have worked very hard to get this victory and we are so thankful.”

“With Tapit on the top side of his pedigree, we really thought he would get the mile-and-a-half when given the opportunity. We always thought he had the ability. After the Derby, you just have to see what it takes out of them. It's a demanding race as well as the Belmont. We were watching him for a week or so. We put our heads together and felt like if we were going to keep him in training we might as well run him. I really don't think I could keep his feet on the ground the next couple of months without keeping him on some type of breeze schedule. He's a very smart horse. He has a lot of energy but he lets you know when he's ready to run.”

Essential Quality remained in New York on Sunday with several of his Kentucky-based stablemates. They are scheduled to van about 14 hours to Louisville at 2 a.m. Monday.

Essential Quality improved his record to six wins from just seven starts with robust purse earnings of $3,215,144.

Prior to the Belmont Stakes, Essential Quality was the 5-2 post-time favorite in the $3 million Grade 1 Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve where he crossed the wire fourth behind Medina Spirit, Mandaloun, and Hot Rod Charlie.

Mandaloun, a stablemate to Essential Quality, worked five furlongs in :59.40 early Sunday morning at Churchill Downs with jockey Florent Geroux aboard. Owned by Juddmonte, Mandaloun is scheduled to run in next Sunday's $150,000 Pegasus Stakes at Monmouth as a prep to the $1 million Grade 1 Haskell Stakes on July 17.

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Chase Miller Scores First Victory Aboard His Father’s Trainee At Churchill Downs

Jockey Chase Miller, the 27-year-old son of trainer Darrin Miller, recorded his first-career victory Thursday evening aboard Bethy in Race 4 at Churchill Downs.

Owned by Silverton Hill, and trained by Miller's father, Bethy cruised to a 3 ¼-length win as the 4-5 post time favorite.

Bethy was Miller's 10th mount in his young career. He moved to Kentucky at an early age and attended Oldham County High School. Miller began to work for his father and eventually was an exercise rider for Steve Asmussen, Todd Pletcher and, in more recent years, George Weaver.

Miller's career in the saddle began in 2012 at Delaware Park where he rode in three races. He worked the past several years as an exercise rider until he once again pursued his dream to ride races. He was named on one horse Friday for his father and two Sunday for trainers Genevieve Londono and Jason Cook.

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The Friday Show Presented By Monmouth Park: Lawyering Up

Attorney Bob Heleringer authored the book, Equine Regulatory Law, so there may be no one better to help us understand the legal questions surrounding the potential drug disqualification of this year's Kentucky Derby winner, Medina Spirit, and the two-year suspension of trainer Bob Baffert handed down on Wednesday by Churchill Downs.

What legal standing does Churchill Downs have to banish Baffert, since it is not a regulatory agency? What are the Hall of Fame trainer's options and how have the courts ruled on similar actions by track owners? What happens next with the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission, now that a test of the split sample from Medina Spirit confirmed the initial finding of the corticosteroid betamethasone in a post-race sample?

eleringer – a native of Louisville who in addition to his law practice served 11 terms in the Kentucky House of Representatives – joins publisher Ray Paulick and editor-in-chief Natalie Voss in this week's edition of the Friday Show to answer those questions and more.

He also offers some historical perspective on a previous case that led to the drug disqualification of Dancer's Image from his 1968 Kentucky Derby victory.

Watch this week's show, presented by Monmouth Park, below:

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