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Reigning Horse of the Year Thorpedo Anna Heads Field for $650,000 Juddmonte Spinster on Fall Stars Sunday
Posted On 01 Oct 2025
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By Amy Owens —-
Reigning Horse of the Year Thorpedo Anna Heads Field
for $650,000 Juddmonte Spinster on Fall Stars Sunday
LEXINGTON, KY (Sept. 30, 2025) – Hill ‘n’ Dale Equine Holdings, Magdalena Racing, Mark Edwards and Judy Hicks’ Thorpedo Anna, the 2024 Horse of the Year, headlines a field of five entered Tuesday for Sunday’s 70th running of the $650,000 Juddmonte Spinster (G1) for fillies and mares.
Among those lined up to face Thorpedo Anna is D.J. Stable’s 3-year-old Nitrogen, winner of the Alabama (G1) Presented by Keeneland Sales, who will be making her first start against older horses.
The Juddmonte Spinster is one of three stakes on Sunday’s 10-race program that starts at 1 p.m. ET.
In the other two Sunday stakes:
The 35th running of the $400,000 Castle & Key Bourbon (G2) attracted a field of 12 headed by Repole Stable’s Final Score, winner of the With Anticipation (G3) at Saratoga.
The eighth running of the $300,000 Indian Summer (L) Presented by Keeneland Select drew a field of nine headed by Leland Ackerley Racing’s Obliteration, a graded stakes winner on dirt and runner-up in the Kentucky Downs Juvenile Sprint Stakes (L) in his grass debut.
The fields for the three Sunday stakes, with trainers, riders and weights from the rail out, are:
Race 8, 4:44 p.m. — $300,000 Indian Summer (L) Presented by Keeneland Select, 2-year-olds, 5½ furlongs (turf):
Post
Horse
Trainer
Jockey
Weight
1
Rogue Legend (GB)
Wesley Ward
Flavien Prat
118 lbs.
2
Bobrovsky
Dale Romans
Junior Alvarado
120
3
Trendsetter
Ben Colebrook
Luan Machado
120
4
Uncle Bucky
Susan Anderson
Irving Moncada
118
5
Obliteration
Steve Asmussen
Jose Ortiz
120
6
Schwarzenegger
Wesley Ward
John Velazquez
118
7
Zeus’s Echo
Chris Davis
Tyler Gaffalione
118
8
Twilight Delight
Daniel Leitch
Luis Saez
118
9
Azizam (GB)
George Weaver
Irad Ortiz Jr.
118
Race 9, 5:16 p.m. — $650,000 Juddmonte Spinster (G1), 3-year-olds and up, fillies and mares, 1 1/8 miles, “Win and You’re In” race for the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1):
Post
Horse
Trainer
Jockey
Weight
1
Chilled
Vicki Oliver
John Velazquez
125
2
Scylla
Bill Mott
Junior Alvarado
125
3
Nitrogen
Mark Casse
Jose Ortiz
121
4
Gin Gin
Brendan Walsh
Luis Saez
125
5
Thorpedo Anna
Kenny McPeek
Flavien Prat
125
Race 10, 5:48 p.m. — $400,000 Castle & Key Bourbon (G2), 2-year-olds, 1 1/16 miles (turf), “Win and You’re In” race for the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1):
Post
Horse
Trainer
Jockey
Weight
1
Turf Star
Graham Motion
Tyler Gaffalione
118
2
J J Grey
Kenny McPeek
Emmanuel Esquivel
118
3
Repentless
Kelsey Danner
Adam Beschizza
118
4
Exonerate
Brad Cox
Flavien Prat
118
5
Blinging It Back
Mark Casse
Axel Concepcion
118
6
Final Score
Todd Pletcher
Irad Ortiz Jr.
122
7
Awesome Connection
Chris Davis
Jose Ortiz
118
8
Gordon Pass
Will Walden
Cristian Torres
118
9
Password
Rodolphe Brisset
Luan Machado
118
10
Vintur
Mark Casse
Florent Geroux
118
11
Casa Cielo
Keith Desormeaux
Francisco Arrieta
120
12
Dr. Agne
Cherie DeVaux
Luis Saez
118
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Since its first race meet 89 years ago, the Keeneland Association has devoted itself to the health and vibrancy of the Thoroughbred industry. The world’s largest Thoroughbred auction house, Keeneland conducts five on-site sales a year, in January, April, September and November. Graduates of Keeneland sales dominate racing across the globe at every level. In April and October, Keeneland offers some of the highest caliber and richest Thoroughbred racing in the world. Keeneland will host the Breeders’ Cup World Championships in 2026 for the fourth time, following 2015, 2020 and 2022. Uniquely structured, Keeneland is a privately held company with a not-for-profit mission that returns its earnings to the industry and the community in the form of higher purses and millions of dollars donated in support of horse industry initiatives and charitable contributions for education, research, and health and human services throughout Central Kentucky. Keeneland also maintains Keeneland Library, a world-renowned public research institution with the mission of preserving information about the Thoroughbred industry. To learn more, visit Keeneland.com.
For more information email Communications Associate Amy Owens at aowens@keeneland.com
