Returning Americanrevolution Meets Scalding in Blame

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Photo: Coglianese Photos/Janet Garaguso
Americanrevolution wins the 2021 Cigar Mile at Aqueduct Racetrack

While the Arlington Stakes (G3T) and Regret Stakes (G3T) carry the grades among six stakes at Churchill Downs June 4, it is the $200,000 Blame Stakes and the $200,000 Shawnee Stakes that attracted the star power.

The Blame, a 1 1/8-mile dirt prep for the $750,000 Stephen Foster Stakes (G2) at Churchill July 2, lured such runners as grade 1 victors Super Stock  and Americanrevolution ; grade 3 winner and $752,800 earner Title Ready , and the 1-2-3 finishers from the Ben Ali Stakes at Keeneland last month—Scalding , Dynamic One , and Proxy .

The 1 1/16-mile Shawnee, three races earlier on the card as race 7, drew graded winners Army Wife  and Crazy Beautiful , plus Pauline's Pearl  and Ava's Grace —first and third, respectively, in the La Troienne Stakes presented by Signify Health (G1) at Churchill May 6. The Shawnee readies fillies and mares for the $350,000 Fleur De Lis Stakes (G2) on the Stephen Foster undercard.

Erv Woolsey and Keith Asmussen's Super Stock is 2-for-10 since winning the 2021 Arkansas Derby (G1)  and is unplaced in his last three races. China Horse Club and WinStar Farm's Americanrevolution comes off a top-tier stakes triumph. He captured the 2021 Cigar Mile Handicap Presented by NYRA Bets (G1) Dec. 4 at Aqueduct Racetrack when he ran down stablemate Following Sea  by a half-length. Also last year, he won four races against New York-breds, including three stakes, while also finishing third in the Pennsylvania Derby (G1) at Parx Racing.

Americanrevolution has been away since the Cigar Mile. Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher had hoped to bring him back to the races in the $200,000 Commentator Stakes May 30 at Belmont Park but it did not attract sufficient entries to be carded. The Blame figures to be the more challenging return race, being a furlong longer and against open company.

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Florent Geroux gains the mount on the 4-year-old Consitution colt, who zipped five furlongs in :59.80 over the Belmont Park training track May 29 after the Commentator was scrapped.

Scalding poses a danger to Americanrevolution, having won four in a row, including the April 23 Ben Ali at the distance at Keeneland. Blitzing to the lead in early stretch from a stalking position under regular rider Javier Castellano, the colt pricked his ears nearing the eighth pole and idled over the final furlong, crossing the wire 1 1/2 lengths in front.


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Hall of Famer Shug McGaughey trains Scalding, a 4-year-old son of Nyquist  , for Grandview Equine, Cheyenne Stables, and LNJ Foxwoods.

After defeating 2019 Longines Kentucky Oaks (G1) winner Shedaresthedevil  in the La Troienne four weeks ago, Pauline's Pearl seems a short-priced favorite in the six-horse Shawnee. The 4-year-old Tapit   filly, owned and bred by Stonestreet Stables, has won three of her last four starts, with the defeat being a runner-up finish to Ce Ce , last year's champion female sprinter, in the Azeri Stakes (G2) at Oaklawn Park March 12.

Luis Saez, one of several New York-based jockeys in town for racing at Churchill on Saturday, is aboard.


Entries: Blame S.

Churchill Downs, Saturday, June 04, 2022, Race 10

  • STK
  • 1 1/8m
  • Dirt
  • $200,000
  • 4 yo's & up
  • 5:26 PM (local)
PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L
1 Proxy (KY) Luis Saez 118 Michael Stidham -
2 Super Stock (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Corey J. Lanerie 118 Steven M. Asmussen -
3 Title Ready (KY) John R. Velazquez 118 Dallas Stewart -
4 Militarist (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Rafael Bejarano 118 Carlo Vaccarezza -
5 Dynamic One (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Tyler Gaffalione 118 Todd A. Pletcher -
6 Scalding (KY) Javier Castellano 120 Claude R. McGaughey III -
7 Santos Dumont (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Mitchell Murrill 118 Chris A. Hartman -
8 Americanrevolution (NY) Florent Geroux 123 Todd A. Pletcher -


Entries: Shawnee S.

Churchill Downs, Saturday, June 04, 2022, Race 7

  • STK
  • 1 1/16m
  • Dirt
  • $200,000
  • 4 yo's & up Fillies and Mares
  • 3:50 PM (local)
PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L
1 Temper Time (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Ricardo Santana, Jr. 118 Dale L. Romans -
2 She's All Wolfe (OK) Francisco Arrieta 118 Donnie K. Von Hemel -
3 Ava's Grace (KY) David Cohen 118 Robertino Diodoro -
4 Army Wife (KY) Tyler Gaffalione 118 Michael J. Maker -
5 Pauline's Pearl (KY) Luis Saez 123 Steven M. Asmussen -
6 Crazy Beautiful (KY) Brian Joseph Hernandez, Jr. 118 Kenneth G. McPeek -