Larkin Armstrong's Harmonize, the four-length winner of the Sept. 3 P.G. Johnson Stakes at Saratoga Race Course, heads a field of 14 2-year-old fillies and two also-eligibles entered for the Oct. 7 running of the $150,000 JPMorgan Chase Jessamine (gr. IIIT) to be run at 1 1/16 miles on the Keeneland grass.
The race is a Breeders' Cup Challenge "Win and You're In" event for the $1 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (gr. IT), a one-mile test slated for Oct. 30 at Keeneland.
Trained by two-time race winner Bill Mott, Harmonize was beaten by a nose by Thrilled in her debut Aug. 9 but turned the tables in the P.G. Johnson. Junior Alvarado, who has been aboard both times, has the call Wednesday and will exit post 4.
Mott won this race in 2001 with Stylelistick and the second division in 1994 with Bail Out Becky.
The field includes four undefeated debut winners on the grass in Gary and Mary West's Family Tree, Delmar Pettigrew's Outsider Art, Klaravich Stables and William Lawrence's Theory of Change, and Ken and Sarah Ramsey's Sapphire Kitten.
Also of interest isĀ Moms Choice, runner-up in the Sept. 5 Kentucky Downs Juvenile Fillies Stakes.
PP | Horse | Jockey | Weight | Trainer |
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1 | 1Carleigh Belle (KY) | Malcolm Franklin | 118 | Barbara I. McBride |
2 | 2Tia Flor (KY) | Carlos Villasana | 118 | Marco A. Castaneda |
3 | 3Precious Love (KY) | Chris Landeros | 118 | Victoria H. Oliver |
4 | 4Harmonize (KY) | Junior Alvarado | 120 | William I. Mott |
5 | 5Clare View (KY) | Florent Geroux | 118 | Chris M. Block |
6 | 6Sapphire Kitten (KY) | Julien R. Leparoux | 118 | Joe Sharp |
7 | 7Lilly's Dream (KY) | Corey J. Lanerie | 118 | Kenneth G. McPeek |
8 | 8Theory of Change (KY) | Joe Bravo | 118 | Chad C. Brown |
9 | 9Inconclusive (KY) | Shaun Bridgmohan | 118 | Richard R. Scherer |
10 | 10Delicate Lady (IL) | John R. Velazquez | 118 | Todd A. Pletcher |
11 | 11Family Tree (KY) | Channing Hill | 118 | Wayne M. Catalano |
12 | 12Moms Choice (KY) | Jose Valdivia, Jr. | 118 | Larry Rivelli |
13 | 13Come to Mischief (KY) | Robby Albarado | 118 | Joe Sharp |
14 | 14Outsider Art (KY) | Drayden Van Dyke | 118 | Jonathan E. Sheppard |
15 | 15La Piba (KY) | Didiel A. Osorio | 118 | Ignacio Correas, IV |
16 | 16Felt in Pocket (KY) | Florent Geroux | 118 | Eoin G. Harty |