Keeneland Barn Notes: Browse Wins Wednesday’s Featured Mulholland Springs Purse

Posted On 19 Oct 2017

By Amy Owens —-

Browse Wins Wednesday’s Featured Mulholland Springs Purse

LEXINGTON, KY (Oct. 18, 2017) – Phipps Stable’s homebred Browse swept to the lead in mid stretch and cruised to a 1½-length victory over Sensitive to win Wednesday’s featured $69,000 Mulholland Springs Purse for fillies and mares before a crowd of 10,219. (Click here for a replay of the race.)
Trained by Shug McGaughey and ridden by Jose Ortiz, Browse covered the 1 1/16 miles on a firm turf course in 1:44.44. Browse was the third winner of the afternoon for Ortiz.
Browse is a 4-year-old Kentucky-bred daughter of Medaglia d’Oro out of the Grade 2-winning
A.P. Indy mare Daydreaming. The victory was worth $41,400 to Browse, a half-sister to Grade 1 winner Imagining, and increased her earnings to $184,252 with a record of 11-3-4-1.
Browse returned $10.80, $5.60 and $4.60. Sensitive, ridden by Florent Geroux, returned $4.80 and $3.80 with Now Power paying $6 to show under Julien Leparoux.
Racing continues Thursday with a nine-race program that begins at 1:05 p.m. ET and features the $100,000 Sycamore (G3) for horses going 1½ miles on the turf. The Sycamore will be the afternoon’s eighth race with a 4:57 p.m. post time.
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With a Fall Meet-high $132,000 carryover, Keeneland’s Pick Six on Wednesday drew $562,000 in new money and resulted in a $46,174 payday for 10 lucky players. One ticket was sold and cashed at Keeneland, with the other nine winners coming from various simulcast outlets throughout the country.
The six-race sequence featured only one winning favorite, 4-5 Petrov in the third race (first leg of the Pick Six). The other payoffs in sequence were $26.20, $9.40, $31.40, $10.80 and $7.60 for second-choice Candy My Boy in the finale.
In addition, the 50-cent Pick Five paid $56,346 for the final five in the sequence.

Keeneland’s 17-day Fall Meet concludes Saturday, Oct. 28, with racing
on Wednesdays through Sundays. Post time for the first race each day is 1:05 p.m. ET.
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Today Keeneland offers a Pick Six carryover of $132,849.
The Pick Six begins with the third race, post time 2:12 p.m. ET.

· CHALON WHEELS BACK QUICKLY, HEADS FIELD OF 11 IN $250,000 LEXUS RAVEN RUN
· TONER TAKING TWO SWINGS AT KEENELAND GRADED STAKES THIS WEEK
· BREEDERS’ CUP CONTENDERS STABLED AT KEENELAND
· @BETKEENELAND RECRUITING GUEST HANDICAPPERS, SO FAR HAS RAISED $1,300 FOR PDJF
· PROBABLE FIELDS FOR UPCOMING STAKES
· KEENELAND COLORING CONTEST DEADLINE NEARS
· FALL MEET SPECIAL EVENTS
· FALL MEET LEADERS

CHALON WHEELS BACK QUICKLY, HEADS FIELD OF 11
IN $250,000 LEXUS RAVEN RUN
Rockingham Ranch’s Chalon, second here two weeks ago against older fillies and mares in the Thoroughbred Club of America (G2), headlines a field of 11 3-year-old fillies entered Wednesday for Saturday’s 19th running of the $250,000 Lexus Raven Run (G2).
The Lexus Raven Run, contested over 7 furlongs on dirt, will go as the ninth race on Saturday’s 10-race program with a 5:30 p.m. ET post time. First post time Saturday is 1:05 p.m.
Trained by Peter Miller, Chalon returns to face 3-year-olds after finishing 1¾ lengths behind multiple graded stakes winner Finley’sluckycharm in the Thoroughbred Club of America.
Paco Lopez, who was aboard Chalon in the TCA as well as for the filly’s 6½-length romp in the Jersey Girl at Belmont in June, has the mount Saturday and will break from post position eight.
One filly who chased Chalon in the Jersey Girl and is back for more is John Oxley’s Pretty City Dancer. Trained by Mark Casse, who has won three stakes during the first eight days of the 17-day Fall Meet with two for Oxley and one for Oxley’s wife, Debby, Pretty City Dancer won the Spinaway (G1) last summer at Saratoga. In her lone Keeneland start, she was sixth in this spring’s Central Bank Ashland (G1).
Corey Lanerie has the mount and will break from post position six.
Other prominent runners Saturday include Dorothy Matz’s homebred Tequilita, a two-time graded stakes winner at the distance.
After finishing seventh in the Kentucky Oaks (G1), Tequilita returned to sprinting and produced a third-place finish in the Test (G1) and won the Charles Town Oaks (G3). Trained by Michael Matz, Tequilita will be ridden by Feargal Lynch and break from post position seven.
Another filly to watch is St. Elias Stable’s Nonna Mela.
Trained by Todd Pletcher, Nonna Mela won the Adirondack (G2) last year. In two starts this year, she won her debut against older horses in which she beat Malibu Stacy, last year’s Lexus Raven Run runner-up, and then ran second in the Prioress (G2).
Chris DeCarlo has the mount Saturday and will break from post position four.
The field for the Lexus Raven Run, with riders and weights, is: Yorkiepoo Princess (Edwin Gonzalez, 120 pounds), Overture (Jose Ortiz, 118), Pinch Hit (Jon Court, 118), Nonna Mela (DeCarlo, 118), Happy Mesa (James Graham, 118), Pretty City Dancer (Lanerie, 118), Tequilita (Lynch, 120), Chalon (Lopez, 118), Classy Tune (Florent Geroux, 118), Torrent (Ricardo Santana Jr., 118) and Miss Sunset (Julien Leparoux, 120).

TONER TAKING TWO SWINGS AT KEENELAND GRADED STAKES THIS WEEK
When trainer Jimmy Toner shows up at Keeneland, he usually has a strong hand. This week is no exception as he has Darby Dan Farm Racing’s Manitoulin for Thursday’s $100,000 Sycamore (G3) and the Phillips Racing Partnership and Pam Gartin’s Defiant Honor for Friday’s $150,000 Pin Oak Valley View (G3).
Both horses arrived at Keeneland Monday morning with Toner assistant Tiffany Webb minding the shop. Manitoulin has been here before with a win and a second in two starts. Defiant Honor is making her first Keeneland stop.
Manitoulin, a 4-year-old son of Awesome Again and champion Soaring Softly, comes into the Sycamore off a daylight allowance victory Sept. 20 at Belmont Park. He started 2017 with an allowance win here, and his lone off-the-board finish in five starts was a fourth-place showing in the Arlington Handicap (G3).
“He is improving,” Webb said. “As a 3-year-old, his focus was on other things and he was gelded over the winter. The family of Soaring Softly are late developers and they get better as they get older.”
Defiant Honor, a 3-year-old full sister to multiple stakes winner and three-time Grade 1 runner-up Recepta, finished second in the Jimmy Durante (G3) at Del Mar but has been off the board in two graded stakes tries this year.
“She had an excuse in the Lake George (G3),” Webb said of the sixth-place finish at Saratoga. The filly had minor throat surgery to correct a breathing issue. “Then she came back and won the Riskaverse at Saratoga impressively.”
In her most recent start, Defiant Honor finished eighth in the Sands Point (G2) run at 1 1/8 miles at Belmont on Sept. 16.
“We came back a little too quick in the Sands Point,” Webb said. “We were trying to get an invitation to the Queen Elizabeth (II Challenge Cup Presented by Lane’s End-G1 last Saturday at Keeneland).
“We gave her a little more time for this one. She is like her sister Recepta in that I think she is better at a mile and the mile and a sixteenth (of the Pin Oak Valley View) should be right in her wheelhouse.”

BREEDERS’ CUP CONTENDERS STABLED AT KEENELAND
Keeneland is home to several potential contenders for the Breeders’ Cup World Championships at Del Mar on Nov. 3-4.
Pre-entries for the Breeders’ Cup will be announced Wednesday, Oct. 25.

Here are the trainers and their possible Breeders’ Cup runners:
Trainer (Barn)
Horse
Breeders’ Cup Race
Last Race
Most Recent Work Since Last Race

Charlie Appleby (quarantine)
Wuheida (GB)
Filly and Mare Turf
4th 10/1 Prix de l’Opera (G1) @Chantilly (scratched from 10/14 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup Presented by Lane’s End (G1) @KEE

Rusty Arnold (60)
Romantic Vision
Distaff
Won 10/8 Juddmonte Spinster (G1) @KEE

Chad Brown (30)
Rushing Fall
Juvenile Fillies Turf
Won 10/11 JPMorgan Chase Jessamine (G3) @KEE

Mark Casse (37-38)
Dancing
Juvenile Fillies Turf
3rd 10/6 Darley Alcibiades (G1) @KEE

Flameaway
Juvenile Turf
Won 10/8 Dixiana Bourbon (G3) @KEE

Heavenly Love
Juvenile Fillies
Won 10/6 Darley Alcibiades (G1) @KEE

Gio Game
Juvenile Fillies
Won 10/6 maiden @KEE

Brian Lynch (40)
Oscar Performance
Turf
3rd 9/30 Joe Hirsch Turf Classic (G1) @BEL
10/15 @KEE: 4f in :49.60

Kenny McPeek (70)
Princess Warrior
Juvenile Fillies
2nd 10/6 Darley Alcibiades (G1) @KEE

Todd Pletcher (27)
Stainless
Juvenile Fillies Turf/Juvenile Fillies
2nd 10/11 JPMorgan Chase Jessamine (G3) @KEE

Mike Stidham (2)
Zipessa
Filly and Mare Turf
Won 10/7 First Lady (G1) @KEE

Roger Varian (quarantine)
Nezwaah (GB)
Turf/Filly and Mare Turf
5th in 10/15 E.P. Taylor (G1) @WO

Wesley Ward (47, 68)
Battle Station
Juvenile
Won 9/22 Bertram F. Bongard @BEL
10/15 @KEE: 4f in :48.60

Fairyland
Juvenile Fillies Turf
2nd 8/16 Bolton Landing @SAR
10/15 @KEE: 5f in 1:00

Hemp Hemp Hurray
Juvenile Turf
2nd 9/17 Summer (G2) @WO
10/15 @KEE: 1:05.60

Lady Aurelia
Turf Sprint
2nd 8/25 Coolmore Nunthorpe (G1) @York
10/12 @KEE: 5f/turf in 1:01.80

Master Merion
Turf Sprint
Won 9/14 Franklin-Simpson @KD
10/15 @KEE: 5f in 1:04.80

Ultima D
Juvenile Fillies Turf
Won 9/6 Exacta Systems Juvenile Fillies @KD
10/15 @KEE: 5f in 1:02.80

@BETKEENELAND RECRUITING GUEST HANDICAPPERS, SO FAR HAS RAISED $1,300 FOR PDJF
@BetKeeneland, Keeneland’s new Twitter handle that delivers real-time handicapping tips and tools to wagering fans, features a Handicapper of the Day series that benefits the Permanently Disabled Jockeys Fund (PDJF).

Adding to the fun, @BetKeeneland is inviting people to submit why they should be the Handicapper of the Day – in 140 characters or less. Keeneland is providing each Handicapper of the Day with a $200 bankroll to wager over the course of the race day, with winnings going to support PDJF.

Through the first eight days of the Fall Meet, those who have been Handicapper of the Day have raised $1,302.40 for the PDJF.

Guest handicappers for the next three days are:

Wednesday – Rich Eng, author of “Betting on Horse Racing for Dummies,” a beginners textbook for horse racing.

Thursday – Samantha Siegel, who races horses in the name of Jay Em Ess Stable.

Friday – Turf writer Dick Jerardi.

@BetKeeneland includes the Keeneland NOW Podcast, with noted handicapper Jeremy Plonk of Horseplayernow.com. In this podcast, lasting 60-90 seconds, Plonk offers final thoughts 10 minutes prior to every race. He also is on call to field questions from fans in addition to providing traditional tweets and commentary throughout the race day.

The 30-minute race-day Preview Podcast airs live at Keeneland.com each race day from noon-12:30 p.m. and is available at @BetKeeneland.

The @BetKeeneland handle also provides scratches, changes, clocker reports, track conditions, race results, expert picks and carryover information.

PROBABLE FIELDS FOR UPCOMING STAKES
$125,000 ROOD & RIDDLE DOWAGER (G3) (Entries taken Thursday; race Sunday) – Apple Betty (IRE) (trainer Shug McGaughey), Coco Channel (Charlie LoPresti), Daring Duchess (Mike Maker), Grateful (Todd Pletcher), Lottie (Graham Motion), Place des Vosges (Richard Baltas) and Quiet Business (Rusty Arnold).
$200,000 HAGYARD FAYETTE (G2) (Entries taken Wednesday, Oct. 25; race Saturday, Oct. 28) – Giuseppe the Great (trainer Nick Zito), Honorable Duty (Brendan Walsh), McCraken (Ian Wilkes), Neolithic (Todd Pletcher), Texas Chrome (Allen Milligan) and The Player (Buff Bradley).

KEENELAND COLORING CONTEST DEADLINE NEARS

Tomorrow at 6 p.m. ET is the deadline to enter the Keeneland Coloring Contest in celebration of the new Keeneland Coloring Book, a hand-illustrated Made South coloring book. Both children and adults will enjoy this entertaining way to explore the history and beauty of Keeneland through maps and illustrations. Click here for a video about the Keeneland Coloring Book.

Fans can enter by uploading a photo of their finished work to Instagram: Tag @shopkeeneland and include the hashtag #keenelandcoloringbook. Keeneland will announce winners via Instagram tomorrow. The winner receives a reserved Grandstand box for up to six and a Keeneland Kids Club gift crate.

FALL MEET SPECIAL EVENTS
Wednesday, Oct. 18
Wear Red Day – Fans are invited to wear red to the races to help raise awareness of heart disease: the No. 1 killer of women. The first 3,000 patrons with receive a red dress pin.
WINS-Day Challenge. An inexpensive way for beginning handicappers to test their skills and give handicapping contests a try, the WINS-Day Challenge has a $2,500 guaranteed pool. Enter for $10 at Wagering Central (first floor of the Grandstand) and place a mythical $2 win and place wager – no actual money required – on Keeneland races 3-8.
Thursday, Oct. 19
Official Keeneland Tours – During the Fall Meet, guided tours are offered Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays beginning at 8:30 a.m. ET. Fans also can receive an insider view of racing on the Behind-the-Scenes Racing Tours and a Backstretch Tour and Day at the Races on other days.
Friday, Oct. 20
College Scholarship Day – Full-time college students receive free general admission and the chance to win one of ten $1,000 scholarships awarded after each race. A $10,000 Runhappy Scholarship also will be awarded. Click here to preregister before 5 p.m. ET on Oct. 19. Also pre-register at the University of Kentucky on Thursday, Oct. 18, from noon to 2 p.m. during Campus Invasion outside Bowmen’s Den. On Friday, registration will take place in Keeneland’s College Zone in the North Terrace. Students will enjoy music, free snacks and prize drawings.
Pin Oak Bluegrass Exacta Sweepstakes. On the day of the $150,000 Pin Oak Valley View (G3), fans can sign up for a chance to win a package for Keeneland’s 2018 Spring Meet that includes a private tour of Pin Oak Stud near Versailles, Kentucky, and an afternoon at the Keeneland races with lunch in the Equestrian Room. There also will be a chance to win a Keeneland gift basket. The sign-up table is on the ground level, trackside from Elevator C from noon to 2:30 p.m. ET.

The Woodford Humane Society will have an information table where fans can sign up to win a Keeneland gift basket. Sign-up table is located on the ground level, trackside from Elevator C from noon to 3 p.m.
The Keeneland Shop’s Milliners Corner presents a trunk show with Lela Ray Jewelry adjacent to the Walking Ring from 11 a.m. to 30 minutes after final post.

Tailgating on The Hill. Keeneland’s popular tailgate lot, located adjacent to the Keene Barn & Entertainment Center, features local food trucks, a jumbo television screen, wireless wagering and wagering terminals, race-day programs, The Keeneland Shop kiosk and free shuttles to the track. BETologists will be available to answer fans’ handicapping questions.

Friday Pick 4 Presented by TVG. A $200,000-guaranteed pool will be offered on the final four races of the day, including the Pin Oak Valley View (G3).

Saturday, Oct. 21
Sunrise Trackside. Keeneland shares a special side of Thoroughbred racing that is worth getting up early to enjoy. Sponsored by LEX18, Sunrise Trackside is a free, family-friendly event with activities for all ages: Breakfast With the Works features breakfast for purchase and trackside commentary (7-8:30 a.m.) while Thoroughbreds train on the main track; children’s activities in the Kids Club Corner (7-9 a.m.); Keeneland tours (7:30-10 a.m.); Paddock demonstration with Hagyard Equine Medical Institute (9 a.m.); trackside handicapping seminar with Paddock Host Katie Gensler (11 a.m.); and Q&A session with jockey James Graham in the Paddock (12:05 p.m.).

The Keeneland Shop’s Milliners Corner presents a trunk show with Lela Ray Jewelry adjacent to the Walking Ring from 11 a.m. to 30 minutes after final post.

$350,000 Guaranteed Pick 4 Presented by TVG. Features races 7-10, including the Lexus Raven Run (G2).
Sunday, Oct. 22
Heroes Day Delivered by Papa John’s – Keeneland recognizes the men and women who serve our community. All military (active duty and veterans), first responders – law enforcement officers, firefighters, EMTs – and their families will receive free general admission and access to reserved Grandstand seating. Free food, children’s activities and more will be offered in the North Terrace from Noon-4 p.m.

FALL MEET LEADERS
Through Oct. 15 (eight days of racing)
Jockey
Starts
Wins
2nd
3rd
Purses

Julien Leparoux
41
9
6
1
$857,007
Florent Geroux
41
8
6
6
$648,507
Ricardo Santana Jr.
37
8
5
1
$342,909
Robby Albarado
44
6
5
7
$679,061
Corey Lanerie
59
5
7
4
$224,205
Joe Rocco Jr.
27
4
0
3
$117,668

Trainer
Starts
Wins
2nd
3rd
Purses

Mike Maker
26
7
4
0
$307,833
Mark Casse
21
6
5
2
$927,777
Steve Asmussen
18
4
4
1
$258,365
Rusty Arnold
12
4
1
3
$488,347
Dale Romans
9
4
1
2
$444,805

Owner
Wins
G. Watts Humphrey Jr.
4*
John C. Oxley
4
Kenneth L. and Sarah K. Ramsey
4
Breeze Easy (Mike Hall)
2*
L. William and Corinne Heiligbrodt
2
Three Diamonds Farm (Kirk Wycoff)
2
*includes partnerships