Coach Set for Stakes Debut in Rags to Riches

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Coach rolls to an easy allowance race win Sept. 15 at Indiana Grand

On a day showcasing potential future stars Oct. 25 at Churchill Downs, Coach will try to keep the momentum going off decisive victories in her first two races when she starts in the $98,000 Rags to Riches Overnight Stakes.

The Sunday program at Churchill—one in which fans will be allowed — features 11 races, all for 2-year-olds, highlighted by the $98,000 Street Sense Overnight Stakes for juveniles at 1 1/16 miles and the Rags to Riches for 2-year-old fillies at the same distance. The  card is opening day of a fall meet that will offer 24 race dates, racing Wednesday-Sunday, through Nov. 29—with the notable exception of Nov. 6-7 when Kentucky racing returns to Keeneland for Breeders' Cup weekend.

In the Rags to Riches, Kueber Racing's Coach is expected to make her stakes debut after winning her first two races by a combined 14 lengths at Indiana Grand Racing & Casino. Trained by Brad Cox, the daughter of 2014 Belmont Stakes (G1) runner-up Commissioner should enjoy her first try at two turns.

The expected field of nine also includes Salty as Can Be, who rallied from fourth to win her maiden debut Sept. 4 at Churchill for owners Gary Barber and Baccari Racing Stable. The Into Mischief  filly is out of stakes-placed Theycallmeladyluck, who also has produced grade 1 winner Salty.

If his connections opt to start Sunday, WinStar Farm homebred Eucharist is expected to face six other starters in the Street Sense, which will be the son of Flatter 's second career start after scoring a one-length victory in a maiden special weight race Oct. 4 at Keeneland. Since completing that race in 1:11.46, Eucharist, who also is cross-entered in a race Saturday at Keeneland, has posted an Oct. 18 breeze at Keeneland as he prepares to stretch out to two turns for trainer Rodolphe Brisset.

Eucharist is the first starter out of the stakes-winning Street Boss  mare Boss Barney's Babe.

Three other horses are entered off career debut victories in one-turn maiden special weight races: Mike Heitzmann and Jeff Prunzik's Crime Spree, who has been supplemented off his Sept. 8 win at Harrah's Louisiana Downs Casino and Racetrack; Doubledown Stables' Oncoming Train, who rallied from sixth to win an Oct. 3 race at Keeneland; and West Point Thoroughbred Thoroughbreds and William Sandbrook's Arabian Prince, who rallied from seventh to win a one-mile off-the-turf race Sept. 2 at Churchill.

While those four young horses try stakes company for the first time, Erv Woolsey and Keith Asmussen's Super Stock enters off a third-place finish in the Claiborne Breeders' Futurity (G1) Oct. 3 at Keeneland. The son of Dialed In  won this year's Texas Thoroughbred Futurity in August at Lone Star Park.

Sunday's opening day will mark the first time this year that paid spectators can return to Churchill Downs for live racing amid COVID-19.


Entries: Street Sense Overnight S.

Churchill Downs, Sunday, October 25, 2020, Race 8

  • STK
  • 1 1/16m
  • Dirt
  • $98,000
  • 2 yo
  • 4:36 PM (local)
PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L
1 1Crime Spree (KY) Mitchell Murrill 118 Eric L. Heitzmann 15/1
2 2Oncoming Train (KY) Rafael Bejarano 118 James P. DiVito 9/2
3 3Arabian Prince (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Joseph Talamo 118 Dallas Stewart 4/1
4 4King Fury (KY) Brian Joseph Hernandez, Jr. 118 Kenneth G. McPeek 9/2
5 5Eucharist (KY) Tyler Gaffalione 118 Rodolphe Brisset 5/1
6 6Franz Josef (KY) Julien R. Leparoux 118 Glenn S. Wismer 10/1
7 7Super Stock (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Ricardo Santana, Jr. 122 Steven M. Asmussen 8/5




Entries: Rags to Riches Overnight S.

Churchill Downs, Sunday, October 25, 2020, Race 10

  • STK
  • 1 1/16m
  • Dirt
  • $98,000
  • 2 yo Fillies
  • 5:36 PM (local)
PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L
1 1Orsetto (KY) Declan Cannon 118 Timothy Austin 8/1
2 2Malibu Bird (KY) Tyler Gaffalione 118 Norm W. Casse 9/2
3 3Dash to the Top (KY) Gabriel Saez 118 Wayne M. Catalano 15/1
4 4Oliviaofthedesert (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Brian Joseph Hernandez, Jr. 118 Kenneth G. McPeek 4/1
5 5Lady Traveler (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Joseph Talamo 118 Dale L. Romans 5/1
6 6Salty as Can Be (KY) Ricardo Santana, Jr. 118 Mark E. Casse 5/1
7 7Torsie's Charm (KY) Adam Beschizza 118 Eddie Kenneally 20/1
8 8Coach (KY) Florent Geroux 120 Brad H. Cox 3/1
9 9Midnight Ballerina (KY) Julien R. Leparoux 118 William I. Mott 8/1