Lady O'Toole Heads Full Field in Jessamine Stakes

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Photo: Hodges Photography / Lou Hodges Jr.
Lady O'Toole scores in the Happy Ticket Stakes at Louisiana Downs

An overflow field of 14 will line up for Keeneland's $150,000 JPMorgan Chase Jessamine Stakes (G3T) for 2-year-old fillies Oct. 11, headed by the Brad Cox-trained Lady O'Toole.

The stakes-winning Colonel John filly comes into the Breeders' Cup "Win and You're In" race off a 3 1/2-length score in the one-mile Happy Ticket Stakes Sept. 9 on the turf at Louisiana Downs. The Jessamine winner will get a paid berth into the Nov. 3 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1T).

Lady O'Toole broke her maiden on dirt in a Churchill Downs maiden special weight in her first start June 16, finished fifth in the Debutante Stakes there June 30, then shipped to Indiana Grand, where she won a dirt allowance race at 5 1/2 furlongs.

The filly was an $80,000 purchase by Stave Landers Racing at the Ocala Breeders' Sales March sale of 2-year-olds in training.

Two fillies come into the Jessamine with graded stakes placings in dirt races—Normandy Farm homebred Sunny Skies and StarLadies Racing's Stainless.

Sunny Skies, trained by Kenny McPeek, was most recently third in the Sept. 16 Pocahontas Stakes (G2) going 1 1/16 miles at Churchill. The daughter of Animal Kingdom  broke her maiden on debut by nine lengths April 27 at Keeneland before she took the June 30 Debutante. She then finished third in the Ellis Park Debutante Stakes Aug. 20.

Todd Pletcher-trained Stainless also won on debut in a May 29 Gulfstream Park maiden dirt race. The Flatter  filly then finished third in the six-furlong Schuylerville Stakes (G3) and fourth in the 6 1/2-furlong Adirondack Stakes (G3), both over the main track at Saratoga Race Course.

French-bred Thewayiam will make her North American debut in the Jessamine after three starts in France. The filly by Thewayyouare broke her maiden in her second start before finishing third in the Prix Roland de Chambure at Saint Cloud. She has been training at Fair Hill Training Center for Graham Motion.

Three other fillies in the field are stakes-placed: Quest Reality's Madame X., who finished second in the Sept. 16 Selima Stakes going six furlongs at Laurel Park; Pletcher's second entry Sugar Queen, who placed third in the Bolton Landing Stakes Aug. 16 at Saratoga; and Rosie O'Prado, who finished third behind Lady O'Toole in the Happy Ticket.


Entries: JPMorgan Chase Jessamine S. (G3T)

Keeneland, Wednesday, October 11, 2017, Race 7

  • Grade IIIT
  • 1 1/16m
  • Turf
  • $150,000
  • 2 yo Fillies
  • 4:24 PM (local)
PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L
1 1Lady O'Toole (FL)Keeneland Sales Graduate Corey J. Lanerie 120 Brad H. Cox 6/1
2 2Rushing Fall (KY) Javier Castellano 118 Chad C. Brown 3/1
3 3Stainless (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Manuel Franco 118 Todd A. Pletcher 15/1
4 4Miss Mo Mentum (KY) Chris Landeros 118 Mark E. Casse 5/1
5 5Madame X. (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Jack Gilligan 118 Susan S. Cooney 20/1
6 6Cash Out (KY) Florent Geroux 118 George R. Arnold, II 12/1
7 7Punto de Entrada (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Diego Fernando Gomez 118 Santiago Medina 30/1
8 8Sunny Skies (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Robby Albarado 118 Kenneth G. McPeek 12/1
9 9Breaking Beauty (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Channing Hill 118 Wayne M. Catalano 15/1
10 10Mentality (NY) Ricardo Santana, Jr. 118 Wesley A. Ward 6/1
11 11Sugar Queen (KY) John R. Velazquez 118 Todd A. Pletcher 8/1
12 12Thewayiam (FR) Joel Rosario 118 H. Graham Motion 12/1
13 13Layla Noor (KY) Feargal Lynch 118 Arnaud Delacour 15/1
14 14Rosie O'Prado (OK) Jose Valdivia, Jr. 118 Danny Pish 30/1
15 15She's All Skeet (KY) Luis Saez 118 Joe Sharp 20/1
16 16Go Noni Go (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Jose L. Ortiz 118 Michael J. Maker 12/1