FRANKLIN — When the marathon hit the Kentucky Downs late Tuesday afternoon, the two horses most expected to be right there at the end were right there.
On this day, Adventure, a 5-2 second choice in a field of nines, performed slightly better than the 4-5 favorite, Family Way.
The 11th edition of G3, the $550,000 AGS Ladies Marathon for mares and mares ages 3 and up, went to adventurer and jockey Joel Rosario. Joel Rosario finished 1 1/2 lengths in 1 5/16 miles ahead of Family Way and Tyler Gaffarion. Race.
“Perfect trip. The mare did all the work,” said Rosario. “You can see the way she runs that even if someone challenges her, she keeps going ahead of her.”
Owned by Godolphin and trained by Brad Cox, Adventure led straight ahead on a solid course, cutting out minutes of 25.38 in the first quarter, 49.90 in the half and 1:14.24 over six furlongs.
Family Way holds the top spot at 4th and 3rd. With an eighth mile to go, Adventurer was still going strong, with Family Way, who won the race a year ago, gaining momentum. They couldn’t overtake the winner.
“We all went our own way, but we couldn’t catch a leader,” said Gaffarione. “I’m proud of her. She never lets me down.” .”
Adventure, the four-year-old daughter of the Nile pioneer, won her second win in her four-time grass career. This is just her second start of 2022 for her. First she was at Mountaineer Park on 6 August and won by 2 and she 1/2 lengths on a sloppy track for stakes off the grass.
It was her first start since December.
“She had a long hiatus over the winter,” said Michael Banahan, director of Darley America/Godolphin’s blood stock. Brad and his team have done a great job and distance from the ground is important to her.”
Returning adventures to the Kentucky Downs was a natural fit for Cox’s barn. Last year she won her $500,000 Exacta Systems Dueling Grounds Oaks in a similar manner, taking the lead and drawing, which she won by 1 3/4 lengths.
“She’s a horse of the course,” Cox said over the phone. , was expecting a trip similar to what she got last year.
“When she leads, she’s very competitive,” Rosario said. “She keeps galloping. She seemed very relaxed.”
Family Way was in favor after their last two starts despite not winning.
She competed in two G1 stakes, placing third in 1 and 1/2 miles in the $500,000 Beverly D. at Churchill Downs on August 13 and $750,000 at Belmont Park on June 10. 2nd in the New York S in 1 and 1/4 miles. .
“She’s grown big in some really good places,” said Gaffarione.
“I felt that horses that had done well at this track would come back and do it again,” said Banahan. “The two fillies who had form here finished 1-2 again.”
Once owned by Godolphin, Family Way is owned by Uncle Moe’s daughter, Fergus Galvin’s Hunter Valley Farm, Debra L. O’Connor and Mark Detempel.
Familyway trainer Brendan Walsh said, “The winner is a good filly too.”She’s the filly I was afraid of. Hats off to her.Listen, I’m not disappointed. I couldn’t ask for more.”
Ending the adventure at 2:08.28, she returned $7.80.
Luck Money finished third behind Family Way, followed by Stand Tall, Viburnum, Oliviaofthedesert, Flippant, Disappearing Act and Core Values.
Danse Macabre Gives Danner First KY Downs Stakes Win
Kelsey Danner pushed the door open early in the game at the Kentucky Downs.
On Tuesday, the 36-year-old trainer got it started.
A native of Louisville, Danner made two appearances in the Kentucky Downs Winners Circle on September 8 in the Allowance Race.
It was the third running of the $500,000 Ainsworth Untappable Stakes for 6 1/2 furlong two-year-old fillies. His Danse Macabre aboard Adam Beschizza nipped his Alluring Angel (GB), an even money favorite, in the nose. Danse Macabre was off as his 9-5 second choice.
“It was exciting,” said a surprisingly calm Danner after his photo was taken in the winners circle in the paddock. “I’ve always been pretty stoic…not on the level of a mic maker!”
Danner remembers coming to the Kentucky Downs as a child when his father, Mark, was training. Yes, said Danner, she was thinking of winning a big race at this competition one day.
“I wanted to be in the winner’s circle,” she said with a smile.
Owned by John Ballantine’s NBS Stable and Stephen Smith’s Elements Racing, Dans McCabal has won two in four career starts. She was her second among her two others.
The Untapable Stakes was the first time Danse Macabre had crossed 5 1/2 furlongs.
“I thought she would run her own race,” Danner said. “Her 6 1/2 here is like her 7/8. The last 8 was a little unclear, but she’s doing really well.”
It was in the final furlong that Danse Macabre, the Kentucky-raised daughter of Army Mule, eased Trainer’s worries. It was there that I got ahead of the juniors. After Danse Macabre put her away, it was the expected challenge from her Alluring Angel and jockey her Irad Ortiz Jr.
They were coming—and fast. Charming Angel dug in and challenged Danse Macabre from the outside, but the favorite couldn’t get past.
“Kelsey did a good job with her,” said Beciza, who rode Dance Macabre in her debut and reunited with her on Tuesday.
“I thought she would run her own race,” Danner said.
A charming angel trained by Jorge Abreu took part in this after rallying to defeat her maiden in Saratoga on August 4th.
“I didn’t break well and I think I sacrificed a position,” Ortiz said. “I just got hit. It was hard to get out of the off pace today.”
Danse Macabre finished second in her final race, the $150,000 Bolton Landing at Saratoga Racecourse on August 21st.
“Wesley’s filly will do well in this year’s Breeders’ Cup. She is a top filly,” said Danner. She said, “She was second in line to her grades.”
Danner was also considering skipping the Kentucky Downs and waiting for the G3, $150,000 Matron at Aqueduct on October 8th over six furlongs.
“This race was well timed,” she said. “She’s been doing great, so why don’t we take our chance?”
Danse Macabre ran the distance in a time of 1:16.62 and paid $5.60 to win. After a top pair, Numero Seis finished in his 3rd place followed by Tiki Bar, Recinto Rompere and All the Envy at home. Two horses, Bring and Half a Chance, were scratched.
Speak loud and clear in It’s Freedom Music City
Freedom Speaks co-owner Warren Miller hoped his 3-year-old filly would do well. are you actually winning? Now that wasn’t what he understood.
But there was Freedom Speaks, involving front-line Happy Soul to take first place in the $500,000 Nelson’s Green Brier Tennessee Whiskey Music City Stakes on Tuesday at the FanDuel competition in Kentucky Downs.
“I knew she would do well, but I didn’t think she would do so well,” said Miller, who owns Carol Reitman and Freedom Speaks. “You never expect to win. We were patient and spaced out the races.” “She can’t believe she won.”
Jeremiah Englehart-trained Freedom Speaks and jockey Jose Lezcano were content to settle for 4th or 5th in the first half mile, one and a half or two lengths off the pace. rice field. Happy Souls, on the other hand, posted a quick time in the early stages where he was 21.63 seconds and under Irad Ortiz he was 44.78 seconds. After waiting for the racing room in the upper stretch to split the horses, Freedom Speaks was one and a half lengths from the lead when Happy Soul crossed the furlong marker in 1:08.95. These two of him went all out to the wire as Freedom Speaks rose for victory in the final strides while completing 6 and 1/2 furlongs in his 1:15.35.
Inglehart, who was dispatched to Freedom Speaks after starting his first two careers in the spring, watched the races with his family at his home in Saratoga Springs, New York.
“At the turn, after she came down the hill, it looked like she took off the reins,” he said by phone. The road felt good. The rest was her and him.”
Lezcano said: I am so happy that Jeremiah and the owner gave me the opportunity to ride this mare. I think he is a very good mare. I had a very good trip. I had never ridden her and watched her replays. She fractured very well and when I asked her, the other mares continued, but she kept finding, finding, finding. She didn’t mean to be beaten. I saw the (two) races she won. A horse with a heart. I just wanted to give her her best chance to win and get out of her way. ”
A 15-for-1 shot, Happy Soul caused a payoff of $275.34 against the $2 Exacta, while the $1 Trifecta returned $1,325.64.
Oeuvre beat 2 1/4 lengths to finish third after taking eighth after the first half mile. Static Fire was just a delinquent head to finish in 4th place. Next across the finish line were Poppy Flower, Bubble Rock, Dreamworker, Grennal (IRE), Sister Lou Ann, Have a Good Day (IRE), Majestic D’oro and Sunday Grace. Royal Engagement and Seduce were scratched.
Freedom Speaks paid $12.56 to win as second choice in a capacity field of 12 3-year-old fillies. She is now 2 for 2 on turf and Inglehart, including her victory in the 5 1/2 furlong allowance race at Saratoga.
Freedom Speaks was purchased in the 2022 OBS Winter Mix Sale for $145,000. Trainer Ronald Spatz won Freedom Speaks in her first two career her races. She won her six-her-length debut match on May 12 on a synthetic surface at Gulfstream Park, and won her first match in the $75,000 stake on June 18 at Gulfstream Park. We came in second place. Based in Englehart, she won the lawn allowance sprint in Saratoga.
“Ron Spatz, an accomplished jockey, prepared her and we sent her to Jeremiah in Saratoga to take her out of South Florida for the summer,” said Miller. has been with her the whole time she just blossomed she came out of the van completely flawless from Saratoga the groom comes down from Saratoga and Heather gives her sweet potatoes she loves sweet potatoes The rest is history. She just kept getting better and better.”
Mr Englehart said: Heather Coots put her to work on her lawn and she said it was perfect for her.I thought her race at Saratoga was a salty place.”
Freedom Speaks, the daughter of Kentucky-bred American Freedom, is currently 3-1-0 in four starts and earning $392,350 on a $288,300 payday.
It was Englehart’s first starter at the Kentucky Downs.
“We had this race on the calendar and it was something we were eyeing even before the permit in Saratoga,” he said. “Heather gave me confidence when she said she’d rather be out of the race than into it.
“I was really excited about it. My wife and kids, we were all watching it. It’s getting better and better. It’s like winning a race in Saratoga. It’s very exciting.”
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