Family Way Pursues Repeat Victory in Ladies Marathon

Sept. 11 is Ladies Day at the FanDuel Meet at Kentucky Downs with fillies and mares in the spotlight. The 11-race card is highlighted by three stakes: the $500,000 Ainsworth Untapable Stakes for 2-year-old filly sprinters, $500,000 Nelson's Green Brier Tennessee Whiskey Music City Stakes for 3-year-old filly sprinters, and the $550,000 AGS Ladies Marathon Stakes (G3T) for fillies and mares running 1 5/16 miles.

A trio of Kentucky Downs stakes winners from last year will be in action in Family Way , Adventuring , and Koala Princess . First post for Sunday's 11-race card is 12:25 p.m. CT, with the Untapable going off at approximately 4:23 p.m., the Music City 4:57 p.m., and the Ladies Marathon 5:31 p.m. 

Hunter Valley Farm, Debra O'Connor, and Marc Detampel's Family Way is seeking a repeat in the Ladies Marathon, which was elevated to graded status for the first time this year. The field of nine also includes Adventuring, winner of last year's $500,000 Exacta Systems Dueling Grounds Oaks at the same distance.

Family Way won a thrilling three-horse photo in last year's Ladies Marathon. In five stakes this year, she has a win in Gulfstream Park's Orchid Stakes (G3T), three seconds, and a third in the Beverly D. Stakes (G1T) at Churchill Downs for trainer Brendan Walsh. 

Godolphin's versatile Adventuring is a stakes winner on turf, dirt, and synthetic. Most recently, after being off eight months, Adventuring returned to take the West Virginia Senate President's Cup Aug. 6 in a race run in the slop after being taken off the turf at Mountaineer Casino Racetrack & Resort.

The Kelsey Danner-trained Viburnum , last year's Dueling Grounds Oaks runner-up at 22-1 odds, is running back 10 days after taking a 1 5/16-mile allowance optional claiming race at Kentucky Downs by a head.

Other entrants include the stakes-winning duo of Flippant  and Core Values , Stand Tall , Oliviaofthedesert , Disappearing Act , and Luck Money .

The Music City's potential favorite is Koala Princess , who won last year's Ainsworth Untapable. In her only start this year, Koala Princess was third in Saratoga Race Course's Lake George Stakes (G3T), also at a mile, for trainer Arnaud Delacour.

Others in the 6 1/2-furlong Music City overflow field of 15 entrants include: multiple stakes winners Poppy Flower , Bubble Rock , Happy Soul , and Have A Good Day  (a group 3 winner in France); stakes-winning Sister Lou Ann  and Majestic d'Oro ; allowance winners Freedom Speaks , Static Fire , and Sunday Grace ; the stakes-placed Dreamworker  and Oeuvre , winner of four straight allowance level races. Static Fire  and Sunday Grace  are among three horses needing defections in order to run.

Danner also has Danse Macabre  in the 6 1/2-furlong Untapable. The Army Mule   filly followed up a maiden race at Colonial Downs with a second in Saratoga's Bolton Landing stakes, a grass sprint.

Half a Chance  won a dirt maiden race at Saratoga after finishing second on grass at Belmont Park. She's owned by the CJ Thoroughbreds partnership headed by former Kentucky Downs track president Corey Johnsen and trained by Wesley Ward.

The field of eight includes the winners of turf maiden races at Saratoga (Alluring Angel  and Numero Seis ), Ellis Park (Bling ), Colonial Downs (Tiki Bar ), and Monmouth Park (Recinto Rompere ).

Entries: Ainsworth Untapable S.

Kentucky Downs, Sunday, September 11, 2022, Race 8

• STK
• 6 1/2f
• Turf
• $500,000
• 2 yo Fillies
• 4:23 PM (local)

PP	Horse	Jockey	Wgt	Trainer	M/L
1	1Half a Chance (KY)	Jose L. Ortiz	120	Wesley A. Ward	7/2
2	2Danse Macabre (KY)	Adam Beschizza	120	Kelsey Danner	3/1
3	3Bling (KY)	Rafael Bejarano	120	Victoria H. Oliver	4/1
4	4Recinto Rompere (KY)	Joel Rosario	120	Arnaud Delacour	9/2
5	5Tiki Bar (KY)	Tyler Gaffalione	120	Michael Stidham	12/1
6	6Numero Seis (KY)	Brian Joseph Hernandez, Jr.	120	Joe Sharp	10/1
7	7All the Envy (KY)	Rene Diaz	118	Marc C. Ricker	30/1
8	8Alluring Angel (GB)	Irad Ortiz, Jr.	120	Jorge R. Abreu	5/1

Entries: Nelson's Green Brier Tennessee Whiskey Music City S.

Kentucky Downs, Sunday, September 11, 2022, Race 9

• STK
• 6 1/2f
• Turf
• $500,000
• 3 yo Fillies
• 4:57 PM (local)

PP	Horse	Jockey	Wgt	Trainer	M/L
1	1Have A Good Day (IRE)	Rafael Bejarano	124	Gustavo Delgado	6/1
2	2Sister Lou Ann (KY)	Edgard J. Zayas	122	Saffie A. Joseph, Jr.	10/1
3	3Poppy Flower (KY)	Jose L. Ortiz	122	William I. Mott	4/1
4	4Koala Princess (KY)	Joel Rosario	122	Arnaud Delacour	3/1
5	5Dreamworker (KY)	Gerardo Corrales	118	Joe Sharp	30/1
6	6Oeuvre (IL)	Jareth Loveberry	120	Chris M. Block	12/1
7	7Freedom Speaks (KY)	Jose Lezcano	118	Jeremiah C. Englehart	8/1
8	8Bubble Rock (KY)	Florent Geroux	124	Brad H. Cox	5/1
9	9Royal Engagement (KY)	Adam Beschizza	118	Michelle Lovell	20/1
10	10Glenall (IRE)	Joe Bravo	118	George Papaprodromou	15/1
11	11Majestic d'Oro (KY)	Tyler Gaffalione	122	Brendan P. Walsh	15/1
12	12Happy Soul (KY)	Irad Ortiz, Jr.	118	Wesley A. Ward	15/1
13	13Static Fire (KY)	Julien R. Leparoux	118	Brian A. Lynch	7/2
14	14Seduce (KY)	Mickaelle Michel	118	H. Graham Motion	30/1
15	15Sunday Grace (KY)	Marcelino Pedroza, Jr.	118	Rey Hernandez	30/1

Entries: AGS Ladies Marathon S. (G3T)

Kentucky Downs, Sunday, September 11, 2022, Race 10

• Grade IIIT
• One And Five Sixteenthm
• Turf
• $550,000
• 3 yo's & up Fillies and Mares
• 5:31 PM (local)

PP	Horse	Jockey	Wgt	Trainer	M/L
1	1Adventuring (KY)	Joel Rosario	122	Brad H. Cox	4/1
2	2Luck Money (KY)	Vincent Cheminaud	122	Arnaud Delacour	15/1
3	3Oliviaofthedesert (KY)	Brian Joseph Hernandez, Jr.	122	Kenneth G. McPeek	12/1
4	4Flippant (KY)	Rafael Bejarano	126	Victoria H. Oliver	6/1
5	5Core Values (KY)	Gerardo Corrales	122	Victoria H. Oliver	5/1
6	6Disappearing Act (KY)	Joe Bravo	122	Carlos Santamaria	10/1
7	7Stand Tall (KY)	Florent Geroux	122	George R. Arnold, II	8/1
8	8Family Way (KY)	Tyler Gaffalione	126	Brendan P. Walsh	3/2
9	9Viburnum (KY)	Adam Beschizza	122	Kelsey Danner	20/1