Alex Frost's La Lune (GB), runner-up in the Kentucky Downs Ladies Marathon (L) in her U.S. debut last month, heads a field of 10 fillies and mares entered Thursday for Sunday's 30th running of the $150,000 Rood & Riddle Dowager (G3) going 1½ miles on the turf at Keeneland.
The Rood & Riddle Dowager is scheduled as the seventh race on Sunday's nine-race program with a 4:12 p.m. ET post time. First post Sunday is 1 p.m.
Trained by Edward Vaughan, La Lune was a Group 3 winner in England three starts back going the Rood & Riddle Dowager distance. Adam Beschizza, who was aboard in her U.S. debut, has the call Sunday and will break from post four.
Chief among her rivals is Godolphin's Micheline, trained by Mike Stidham.
Runner-up in the Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup (G1) Presented by Dixiana last year, Micheline has won one of five starts in 2021 with that victory coming in the Hillsborough (G2) at Tampa Bay Downs in March. Florent Geroux has the mount Sunday from post six.
The field for the Rood & Riddle Dowager, with riders and weights from the inside, is:
- English Affair (James Graham, 121 pounds)
- I Hear You (Ricardo Santana Jr., 121)
- Summer in Saratoga (Corey Lanerie, 121)
- La Lune (GB) (Beschizza, 123)
- Luck Money (Joel Rosario, 121)
- Micheline (Geroux, 121)
- Eesha My Flower (Brian Hernandez Jr., 121)
- Kelsey's Cross (Alex Achard, 121)
- Key Biscayne (Tyler Gaffalione, 121)
- Viburnum (Reylu Gutierrez, 118)
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