Twilight Gleaming Shines in Overflow Franklin
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Twilight Gleaming wins the Daisycutter Handicap at Del Mar
The $300,000 Franklin Stakes (G3T) features what should be a wide-open field Oct. 16 at Keeneland that includes last year's Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint (G2T) winner Twilight Gleaming .
The 5 1/2-furlong race is for fillies and mares 3 and up.
Stonestreet Stables' Twilight Gleaming, trained by Wesley Ward, is making her fourth start of the year but has two wins and a second—at Keeneland, no less—on her 2022 résumé. That came in the April 10 Palisades Stakes. Last time out, she won the Daisycutter Handicap by half a length.
John Velazquez has the call from post 6.
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Another Franklin contender, Caravel , won the Intercontinental Stakes (G3T) at Belmont Park. She has won half of her six starts this year but other than the Intercontinental, has struggled some in graded company. The daughter of Mizzen Mast finished fourth, 4 1/4 lengths back in the Presque Isle Downs Masters Stakes (G2) on an all-weather track. She also finished ninth in the Caress Stakes (G3T).
Tyler Gaffalione rides the Brad Cox trainee, who races for owners Qatar Racing, Marc Detampel, and Madaket Stables.
No one should sleep on Castleton Lyons' Brooke Marie , who won the Monrovia Stakes (G2T) at Santa Anita Park earlier this spring and finished fourth in the Mint Ladies Sprint Stakes (G3T) in her last outing. She's finished in the top three thrice in five starts this year.
Luis Saez has the call for trainer Eddie Kenneally from post 11.
Another Irish-bred challenger in the field, Star Devine , posted a pair of second-place finishes in the Intercontinental Stakes and the Giant's Causeway Stakes. Those were followed by a fifth in the Caress Stakes and sixth in the Mint Ladies Sprint Stakes.
Trainer Brian Lynch has Tobys Heart . The filly by Jack Milton is a multiple stakes winner and placed third in this year's Monrovia Stakes (G2T). She will be ridden by Vincent Cheminaud from post 7.
Also entered is Change of Control , who brings in a 1-3-1 record in eight starts this year and an overall mark of 10-9-7 from 39 starts, with earnings of $953,925. She finished fourth in the Jaipur Stakes (G1T) against males earlier this year. Change of Control is by Fed Biz , a son of Giant's Causeway. She is the most successful of the four starters to come from her dam, the Quiet American mare America's Blossom.
Rounding out the field are Bout Time , Creative Credit , Elle Z , Have A Good Day , Querobin Dourada , and Thundering Creed . Also eligibles are the stakes-winning Ward-trained Illegal Smile , Miner's Queen , and Violenza .
Keeneland, Sunday, October 16, 2022, Race 7Entries: Franklin S. (G3T)
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Horse
Jockey
Wgt
Trainer
M/L
1
1Star Devine (IRE)
Adam Beschizza
120
Jorge R. Abreu
8/1
2
2Caravel (PA)
Tyler Gaffalione
122
Brad H. Cox
4/1
3
3Querobin Dourada (KY)
Joseph Talamo
120
Paulo H. Lobo
15/1
4
4Creative Credit (KY)
Perry Wayne Ouzts
120
T. R. Haehn
20/1
5
5Have A Good Day (IRE)
Reylu Gutierrez
118
Gustavo Delgado
30/1
6
6Twilight Gleaming (IRE)
John R. Velazquez
118
Wesley A. Ward
7/2
7
7Tobys Heart (KY)
Vincent Cheminaud
122
Brian A. Lynch
15/1
8
8Bout Time (KY)
Brian Joseph Hernandez, Jr.
120
Cherie DeVaux
6/1
9
9Thundering Creed (KY)
Joseph Rocco, Jr.
122
Michael A. Tomlinson
12/1
10
10Change of Control (KY)
Colby J. Hernandez
122
Michelle Lovell
5/1
11
11Brooke Marie (KY)
Luis Saez
124
Eddie Kenneally
8/1
12
12Elle Z (KY)
Mitchell Murrill
120
Chris A. Hartman
20/1
13
13Illegal Smile (IRE)
Gerardo Corrales
120
Wesley A. Ward
4/1
14
14Miner's Queen (KY)
Joseph Talamo
120
Rey Hernandez
30/1
15
15Violenza (KY)
Chris Landeros
120
Ian R. Wilkes
15/1
