Rushing Fall Targets Keeneland's First Lady
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Rushing Fall after winning the Just a Game Stakes at Belmont Park
Owner Bob Edwards said the multiple grade 1-winning filly Rushing Fall has bounced back from a recent case of dehydration, and the one-mile $400,000 First Lady Stakes (G1T) Oct. 5 at Keeneland is being targeted as her next start.
"She's doing great now," he said Sept. 1 at Saratoga Race Course.
Rushing Fall, a 4-year-old daughter of More Than Ready , has won eight of 10 starts for trainer Chad Brown and Edwards' e Five Racing Thoroughbreds and was expected to race in the Woodford Reserve Ballston Spa Stakes (G2T) Aug. 24 at Saratoga. But when an Aug. 17 work was switched to the Oklahoma training track's dirt course because of the weather, she came out of the :52.49 breeze drained and was unable to run in the 1 1/16-mile turf stakes.
Rushing Fall already has four stakes wins at Keeneland, tying her with Take Charge Lady for second on the track's all-time list behind Wise Dan, who racked up a record seven stakes wins at the Lexington track.
Bred in Kentucky by Fred W. Hertrich III and John D. Fielding out of the Forestry mare Autumnal, Rushing Fall has four grade 1 wins—including the 2017 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1T)—and has earned $1,993,000.
She was bought in 2016 by agent Mike Ryan for $320,000 from the Taylor Made Sales Agency consignment at The Saratoga Sale, Fasig-Tipton's select yearling sale in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
In her three 2019 starts, she captured the Coolmore Jenny Wiley Stakes (G1T) at Keeneland and the Longines Just a Game Stakes (G1T) at Belmont Park and finished second to female turf champion Sistercharlie in her most recent start, the Diana Stakes (G1T) July 13 at Saratoga.