Stakes Winner Key of Life Takes on Dixie Bell

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Photo: Keeneland/Coady Photography
Key of Life wins the 2022 Myrtlewood Stakes at Keeneland Racecourse

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 .

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Oaklawn Park, Saturday, February 11, 2023, Race 9

  • STK
  • 6f
  • Dirt
  • $150,000
  • 3 yo Fillies
  • 4:42 PM (local)
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)Keeneland Sales Graduate Nik Juarez 115 John Alexander Ortiz 15/1
6 6Parody (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Ricardo Santana, Jr. 115 Rodolphe Brisset 12/1
7 7Twirled (KY) Isaac Castillo 119 Steven M. Asmussen 7/2
8 8Baytown Lovely (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Grace McEntee 115 Paul McEntee 20/1