

Key of Life is well into working off her $350,000 price tag with three wins from five starts—all on-the-board finishes—for Flurry Racing Stables and Hoffman Family Racing. She will look to add another in the Feb. 11 Dixie Bell Stakes for 3-year-old fillies going six furlongs over the Oaklawn Park dirt.
The daughter of Mo Town was purchased by Flurry Racing from the Top Line Sales consignment to the 2022 Ocala Breeders' Sale Spring Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training. She was sent to Brad Cox's shedrow where she saw her first start over the Churchill Downs main track in June of last year and finished third.
She tried the Louisville oval again in August, broke her maiden, and rolled out two more consecutive wins, including the Myrtlewood Stakes at Keeneland, where she gave a knockout gate-to-wire performance to finish 6 3/4 lengths ahead of her competition. Last out, the Kentucky-bred filly finished third in the 2022 Fern Creek Stakes at Churchill.
Looking to dampen Key of Life's record is John Sadler trainee Stone Silent who has not seen the track since reeling off a maiden win in the 2022 Debutante Stakes last June at Santa Anita Park. The daughter of Adios Charlie is campaigned by Talla Racing and West Point Thoroughbreds
Other entrants include Twirled , Always Angels , Parody , Baytown Lovely , Klassy Bridgette , and Pate .
Oaklawn Park, Saturday, February 11, 2023, Race 9Entries: Dixie Belle S.
PP
Horse
Jockey
Wgt
Trainer
M/L
1
1Pate (VA)
Rafael Bejarano
115
Clinton C. Stuart
12/1
2
2Klassy Bridgette (KY)
Francisco Arrieta
119
Chris A. Hartman
6/1
3
3Key of Life (KY)
Flavien Prat
122
Brad H. Cox
7/5
4
4Stone Silent (FL)
Ramon A. Vazquez
119
John W. Sadler
3/1
5
5Always Angels (KY)
Nik Juarez
115
John Alexander Ortiz
15/1
6
6Parody (KY)
Ricardo Santana, Jr.
115
Rodolphe Brisset
12/1
7
7Twirled (KY)
Isaac Castillo
119
Steven M. Asmussen
7/2
8
8Baytown Lovely (KY)
Grace McEntee
115
Paul McEntee
20/1