Estilo Femenino Seeks Stakes Victory in Wilma Mankiller

After facing grade 1 winner and Steve Asmussen stablemate Mia Mischief last out, Estilo Femenino has been installed as the 5-2 morning-line favorite in the $50,000 Wilma Mankiller Stakes April 6 at Will Rogers Downs. The 5-year-old Midnight Lute  mare will face nine other fillies and mares sprinting six furlongs.

Campaigned by Swift Thoroughbreds, Tim Cambron, Anna Cambron, and Bradley Thoroughbreds, Estilo Femenino was third in her most recent start, a six-furlong allowance-level sprint March 20 at Oaklawn Park. She rallied from sixth on a track labeled good and got up for third, missing second by a nose, while Mia Mischief, the 2019 Humana Distaff Stakes (G1) winner, was a 2 1/4-length winner. As a 3-year-old, Estilo Femenino earned stakes placings with runner-up performances in the Safely Kept Stakes at Laurel Park and the Sugarloaf Key Handicap at Gulfstream Park.

Jockey Lane Luzzi is assigned the mount on Estilo Femenino, who will break from post 2.

Wholehearted, a $25,000 claim in November by trainer Robertino Diodoro for Mike Sisk's M and M Racing, has won or placed in her past nine starts. Diodoro plucked the mare from a Churchill Downs claiming event, in which she was bumped at the start and finished second. She has raced three times at Oaklawn Park since, losing by a nose in a Feb. 6 starter allowance, overcoming traffic to win an allowance optional claiming event 10 days later, and finishing third in a March 27 optional claimer.

Ty Kennedy will ride the 6-year-old Awesome Again mare, the 3-1 morning-line second choice, from post 3.

Four Oklahoma-breds will run in their home state for the Wilma Mankiller, including 8-1 shots Lady Orchid and Spring Steen, both making their first starts for trainer Scott Garrison.

Natalie Bravo's Lady Orchid, a winner of four of five starts, is making her first start since a neck victory in the Dec. 15 one-mile Useeit Stakes at Remington Park. She won on debut by seven lengths at Will Rogers a year ago over six furlongs, then added an allowance score and the Oklahoma Stallion Fillies Stakes. The Wilma Mankiller will be the first try in open company for the 4-year-old Oratory filly.

Michael Grossman's Spring Steen will look to snap a three-race losing streak. The 5-year-old daughter of Maclean's Music  won over this course and distance by nine lengths last April in the Miranda Diane Stakes for state-bred fillies and mares. Two starts later, she bested open company in the Hoist Her Flag Stakes at Canterbury Park.

Country Daisy and She's Shiney, the winner of the 2018 Oklahoma Classics Lassie Stakes, are the other two Oklahoma-breds. Texas will be represented by Ima Discreet Lady and Brave Daisey, both black-type winners in the Lone Star State. The field also includes Indiana-bred Obsolete and North Carolina-bred Drip Brew.

Entries: Wilma Mankiller S.

Will Rogers Downs, Monday, April 06, 2020, Race 9

• STK
• 6f
• Dirt
• $50,000
• 3 yo's & up Fillies and Mares
• 5:15 PM (local)

PP	Horse	Jockey	Wgt	Trainer	M/L
1	1Country Daisy (OK)	Ken S. Tohill	118	H. Ray Ashford, Jr.	20/1
2	2Estilo Femenino (KY)	Lane J. Luzzi	121	Steven M. Asmussen	5/2
3	3Wholehearted (KY)	Ty Kennedy	121	Robertino Diodoro	3/1
4	4She's Shiney (OK)	Jose Angel Medina	121	J. Alan Williams	10/1
5	5Ima Discreet Lady (TX)	David Cabrera	124	Karl Broberg	12/1
6	6Obsolete (IN)	Alfredo Triana Jr.	118	Michael E. Lauer	20/1
7	7Spring Steen (OK)	Ry Eikleberry	124	Scott K. Garrison	8/1
8	8Brave Daisey (TX)	Lindey Wade	118	Russell Brown	8/1
9	9Lady Orchid (OK)	Adrian B. Ramos	124	Scott K. Garrison	8/1
10	10Drip Brew (NC)	Floyd Wethey, Jr.	118	Scott E. Young	6/1