I'm a Chatterbox Gets Mojo Back in Obeah

Maybe I'm a Chatterbox needed a race, maybe she needed an easy target. Either way, the grade I winner got her mojo back in the $100,000 Obeah Stakes (gr. III), in which she made short work of a short field June 11 at Delaware Park. 

The 1 1/8-mile test was the first win in a second start of the season for I'm a Chatterbox, who went favored in the April 22 Hilliard Lyons Doubledogdare (gr. III) going 1 1/16 miles at Keeneland, only to miss with a closing run against 25-1 shot Brooklynsway. It was her first outing for breeders Carolyn and Fletcher Gray after her long 3-year-old campaign ended with a lackluster eighth in the Longines Breeders' Cup Distaff (gr. I).

This time, I'm a Chatterbox ran to the form of the previous summer, airing by 8 1/2 lengths. She found the winner's circle for the first time since September of 2015, when she took the Cotillion Stakes (gr. I) at Parx Racing.

The Larry Jones trainee went favored at 1-9 against four others, and despite getting pinched at the break and race-ridden into the first turn, she made a solid closing run up the backside and devoured pacesetter Savings Account, widening away to score by daylight under jockey Gabriel Saez. Final time was 1:53.20 on a fast track.

I'm a Chatterbox returned $2.60, $2.10, and $2.10. Genre was a distant second, worth $4.20 and $3. Savings Account held for third, worth $2.60. Calamity Kate and Royal Jewelry completed the order of finish.

A daughter of Munnings, I'm a Chatterbox was bred in Kentucky out of the Lost Soldier mare Chit Chatter. She improved her record to 6-3-2 from 13 starts for earnings of $1,384,614.