Champion Nest Headlines Star-Studded Field for $600,000 Juddmonte Spinster on Opening Sunday of Keeneland Fall Meet

By Amy Gregory —-

LEXINGTON, KY (Oct. 3, 2023) – Repole Stable, Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and Michael House’s champion Nest heads a deep field of seven fillies and mares entered Tuesday for Sunday’s 68th running of the $600,000 Juddmonte Spinster (G1).

In addition to Nest, a three-time Grade 1 winner, the Juddmonte Spinster also attracted Juddmonte’s Idiomatic, winner of this summer’s Personal Ensign (G1).

Two other stakes are on Sunday’s 10-race program: the 33rd running of the $350,000 Castle & Key Bourbon (G2) – which drew a field of 12 plus three also-eligibles headed by stakes winners Noted, owned by Repole Stable, Joseph Morey Jr.’s Vote No and Wertheimer and Frere’s Tok Tok – and the sixth running of the $250,000 Indian Summer (L) Presented by Keeneland Select, which drew a field of 10 headed by two-time stakes winner Amidst Waves, who is owned by the partnership of
R. A. Hill Stables, BlackRidge Stables, Swinbank Stables, Big Tuff Stables and Black Type Thoroughbreds.

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