Paradise Farm Corp. and Parkland Thoroughbreds' $150,000 Valley View Stakes (Grade 3) winner Stunning Sky leads a competitive field of seven 3-year-old fillies that were entered in Saturday's 30th running of the $200,000 Mrs. Revere (G2) at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky.
The Mrs. Revere, a 1 1/16-mile event over the Matt Winn Turf Course, is carded as Race 10 with a post time of 5:36 p.m. (all times Eastern). Saturday's 11-race program has a first post of 1 p.m.
Trained by Mike Maker, Stunning Sky recorded a half-length score at odds of 5-1 over fellow Mrs. Revere rival Princess Grace in the 1 1/16-mile Valley View on Oct. 16. Stunning Sky, a 3-year-old daughter of Declaration of War, will be hoping for a fast pace after closing from more than six lengths behind the early pace in her last start on the Keeneland turf course. Claimed for $50,000 in her second start from trainer Jorge Abreu last December, Maker spotted Stunning Sky against stakes company in eight of her last nine starts. She finished second in the $150,000 Lake Placid (G2) and $500,000 Saratoga Oaks prior to her Valley View score.
Ricardo Santana Jr., who has teamed with Maker to win with nine of 36 starts this year, has the call on Stunning Sky and will break from post position No. 3.
The Top 4 finishers of the Valley View were entered in the Mrs. Revere as they seek revenge against Stunning Sky. Susan and John Moore's lightly raced Princess Grace will be attempting to turn the tables against her Valley View rival in just her fourth lifetime start. Trained by Mike Stidham, Princess Grace dominated her first two starts at Colonial Downs and Monmouth, respectively. In the Valley View at odds of 7-1, Princess Grace held a 1 1/2-length lead at the top of the stretch but could not hold off the late surge from Stunning Sky.
Jockey Florent Geroux will be in the saddle for the Mrs. Revere from post 4.
Finishing just one-length behind Stunning Sky and a half-length back of Princess Grace in the Valley View was G. Watts Humphrey's How Ironic. The homebred daughter of Tonalist drew post 5 with Rafael Bejarano in the saddle.
Also entered in the field of 3-year-old fillies: Stonestreet Stables' $300,000 Edgewood (G2) runner-up Hendy Woods; Silverton Hill's recent allowance winner and $100,000 Tepin third-place finisher Pass the Plate; Edward Seltzer and Beverly Anderson's Indiana Grand allowance winner Positive Danger; and Mary Ann Charlston's two-time winner Witez, who recently finished fourth in the Valley View.
The Mrs. Revere field from the rail out (with jockey and trainer): Hendy Woods (Tyler Gaffalione, Mark Casse); Positive Danger (Brian Hernandez Jr., Tony Granitz); Stunning Sky (Santana Jr., Maker); Princess Grace (Geroux, Stidham); How Ironic (Bejarano, Oliver); Pass the Plate (Joe Talamo, Paul McGee); and Witez (Julien Leparoux, Ian Wilkes).
The Mrs. Revere is named in tribute to the highly competitive filly who collected a total of four Churchill Downs stakes during the two-year span of 1984-85. Mrs. Revere won three stakes in total during her 3-year-old season, thus providing the appropriate name for this stakes for 3-year-old fillies on the turf. Mrs. Revere was owned by the partnership of Dr. Hiram Polk and Dr. David Richardson.
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