Envoutante Looks to Improve on Last Year's Locust Grove

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Envoutante wins the 2021 Falls City Stakes at Churchill Downs

Walking L Thoroughbreds and Three Chimneys Farm's multiple graded stakes-winning mare Envoutante  leads a field of six fillies and mares that were entered in the Sept. 17 1 1/16-mile, $400,000 Locust Grove Stakes (G3) at Churchill Downs. Trained by Kenny McPeek, Envoutante finished third in last year's Locust Grove behind former Longines Kentucky Oaks (G1) winner Shedaresthedevil .

Envoutante has recorded four of her six lifetime victories beneath the Twin Spires and most notably has won the last two runnings of the Falls City Stakes (G2) at the Louisville, Ky., track's fall meet. She is 6-2-5 in 18 career starts, having earned $977,858.

She has only run twice this year, including a distant fourth out of four in the Beholder Mile Stakes (G1) at Santa Anita Park.

Another top entrant in the Locust Grove is multiple stakes winner Li'l Tootsie . The 4-year-old daughter of Tapiture   recently won the $125,000 Groupie Doll Stakes for owner Joel Politi and trainer Tom Amoss. Li'l Tootsie has seven lifetime victories from 17 starts with $532,874 in earnings. She is coming into Saturday with back-to-back victories: the Groupie Doll at Ellis Park and the Anchorage Overnight Stakes at Churchill Downs. 

The field for the Locust Grove from the rail out is Gold Spirit , Envoutante, Crazy Beautiful , Li'l Tootsie, Played Hard , and Princess of Cairo .

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Entries: Locust Grove S. (G3)

Churchill Downs, Saturday, September 17, 2022, Race 8

  • Grade III
  • 1 1/16m
  • Dirt
  • $400,000
  • 3 yo's & up Fillies and Mares
  • 4:22 PM (local)
PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L
1 1Gold Spirit (CHI) Tyler Gaffalione 121 Todd A. Pletcher 6/1
2 2Envoutante (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Brian Joseph Hernandez, Jr. 121 Kenneth G. McPeek 5/2
3 3Crazy Beautiful (KY) Julien R. Leparoux 121 Kenneth G. McPeek 9/5
4 4Li'l Tootsie (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Edgar Morales 121 Thomas M. Amoss 8/1
5 5Played Hard (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Joel Rosario 121 Philip A. Bauer 2/1
6 6Princess of Cairo (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Geovanni Franco 121 Michael Puhich 20/1