Four More Lucrative Stakes This Week at Kentucky Downs

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Tricky Escape will try for a third straight stakes win when she starts in the Ramsey Farm Stakes Sept. 13 at Kentucky Downs

Kentucky Downs closes out its short 2018 meeting this week with racing Sept. 12 and 13 with a pair of stakes scheduled for each day.

The Wednesday Sept. 12 card is a makeup date from Sept. 9, which was postponed after heavy rain Sunday at the turf-only track in Franklin, Ky. Racing Sept. 13 is the originally scheduled card.

On Wednesday 3-year-olds will be in the spotlight in the $300,000 Fifth Third Insurance Dueling Grounds Oaks for fillies and the $400,000 Exacta Systems Dueling Grounds Derby.

In the Oaks, Debby Oxley's Heavenly Love, a grade 1 winner on dirt, will try to secure her first graded stakes win on turf. Trained by Mark Casse, Heavenly Love won last year's Alcibiades Stakes (G1) on the dirt at Keeneland. In June the daughter of Malibu Moon  earned a graded stakes placing on turf when she rallied to finish third in the Regret Stakes (G3T) at Churchill Downs.

The morning-line favorite in the expected field of 12 going 1 5/16 miles is Augustin Stable's Pamina, who has finished first or second in her five career starts—all on turf. The daughter of Street Cry enters off a runner-up finish in the Pucker Up Stakes (G3T) Aug. 11 at Arlington International Racecourse, which marked her stakes debut.

In the Derby at 1 5/16 miles, Lothenbach Stables' Captivating Moon will try for what has proven to be an elusive initial graded stakes win for the son of Malibu Moon. Trained by Chris Block, Captivating Moon has placed in three previous graded stakes.

"He's just been kind of a hard-luck horse," Block told track publicity. "He's run against some good horses that have just been a little bit better than him at times. He's also run into some circumstances that I think if there had been more solid pace up front, maybe softening it up, he might have been able to run them down. But he's pretty hardy, pretty consistent, and I expect him to show up Wednesday."

Calumet Farm's Bandua has been entered off a third-place finish in the Secretariat Stakes (G1T). The field also includes grade 3-placed Channel Cat and Reride, who is group 2-placed on dirt.

The card also features four $100,000 races run under starter-allowance conditions that will offer automatic spots in corresponding Claiming Crown races in December at Gulfstream Park.

On Thursday, 3-year-old sprinters will contest the $300,000 Franklin-Simpson Stakes at 6 1/2 furlongs on the turf. Ken and Sarah Ramsey's Battle Station, a stakes winner on dirt, enters off a clear victory in an allowance race sprinting on the turf July 30 at Saratoga Race Course.

The Ramseys also have a top contender in the $400,000 Ramsey Farm Stakes for fillies and mares in Daring Duchess, a daughter of Arch who in her previous start drew off to a 3 1/4-length victory in the Flaming Page Stakes Aug. 11 on the Woodbine turf. 

In the 1 5/16-mile Ramsey Farm, Daring Duchess will have to contend with Jon Marshall's Tricky Escape, who enters off a win in the Aug. 12 Waya Stakes, which was moved from the turf to the main track at Saratoga. Before that effort the daughter of Hat Trick won the Robert G. Dick Memorial Stakes (G3T) on the Delaware Park turf.


Entries: Fifth Third Insurance Dueling Grounds Oaks

Kentucky Downs, Wednesday, September 12, 2018, Race 8

  • STK
  • One And Five Sixteenthm
  • Turf
  • $300,000
  • 3 yo Fillies
  • 4:58 PM (local)
PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L
1 1Osare (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Jose L. Ortiz 118 Jonathan Thomas 8/1
2 2Malibu Saint (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Luis Saez 124 Michael J. Maker 10/1
3 3Pamina (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Florent Geroux 118 Michael W. Dickinson 3/1
4 4Over Thinking (KY) Chris Landeros 118 Victoria H. Oliver 12/1
5 5Dothraki Sea (KY) Drayden Van Dyke 118 Thomas F. Proctor 20/1
6 6Cloak of Secrecy (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Feargal Lynch 118 Brendan P. Walsh 12/1
7 7Lemon Princess (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Joseph Rocco, Jr. 118 Joan Scott 20/1
8 8Princess Warrior (KY) Brian Joseph Hernandez, Jr. 118 Kenneth G. McPeek 6/1
9 9Rahway (KY) Flavien Prat 118 Michael J. Maker 12/1
10 10Sippin Kitten (KY) Tyler Gaffalione 118 Michael J. Maker 15/1
11 11Heavenly Love (KY) Julien R. Leparoux 118 Mark E. Casse 7/2
12 12Smart Shot (KY) Adam Beschizza 118 George R. Arnold, II 12/1




Entries: Exacta Systems Dueling Grounds Derby

Kentucky Downs, Wednesday, September 12, 2018, Race 9

  • STK
  • One And Five Sixteenthm
  • Turf
  • $400,000
  • 3 yo
  • 5:27 PM (local)
PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L
1 1Fred'stwirlincandy (KY) James Graham 118 Lon Wiggins 12/1
2 2Jailhouse Kitten (KY) Jose L. Ortiz 118 Michael J. Maker 15/1
3 3Zero Gravity (FL)Keeneland Sales Graduate Joseph Rocco, Jr. 118 Joe Sharp 20/1
4 4Reride (KY) Ricardo Santana, Jr. 118 Steven M. Asmussen 5/1
5 5Cullum Road (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Tyler Gaffalione 118 Michael J. Maker 10/1
6 6Bandua (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Adam Beschizza 118 Dermot K. Weld 4/1
7 7Captivating Moon (KY) Florent Geroux 118 Chris M. Block 3/1
8 8Zanesville (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Flavien Prat 118 Thomas M. Amoss 15/1
9 9Channel Cat (KY) Luis Saez 118 Todd A. Pletcher 7/2
10 10Morning Stride (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Julien R. Leparoux 118 Thomas M. Amoss 10/1




Entries: Franklin-Simpson S.

Kentucky Downs, Thursday, September 13, 2018, Race 8

  • STK
  • 6 1/2f
  • Turf
  • $300,000
  • 3 yo
  • 4:58 PM (local)
PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L
1 1Shangroyal (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Jose L. Ortiz 118 Michael J. Maker 10/1
2 2Bantu (KY) Joseph Rocco, Jr. 118 Brendan P. Walsh 12/1
3 3King Valero (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Samuel Camacho, Jr. 118 Alejandro Gonzalez 15/1
4 4Navy Armed Guard (KY) James Graham 118 Joan Scott 20/1
5 5Majestic Dunhill (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Joe Bravo 124 George Weaver 12/1
6 6Battle Station (NY)Keeneland Sales Graduate John R. Velazquez 122 Wesley A. Ward 4/1
7 7Funny Duck (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Adam Beschizza 122 George R. Arnold, II 6/1
8 8Get Western (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Edgar Morales 118 Charles Lopresti 20/1
9 9Mr Ashley (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Jose Riquelme 118 Adolfo Macias 15/1
10 10Angaston (KY) Brian Joseph Hernandez, Jr. 120 Lon Wiggins 7/2
11 11Nottoway (ON) Florent Geroux 118 William B. Van Meter 12/1
12 12Honorable Treasure (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Julien R. Leparoux 118 Kenneth G. McPeek 9/2




Entries: Ramsey Farm S.

Kentucky Downs, Thursday, September 13, 2018, Race 9

  • STK
  • One And Five Sixteenthm
  • Turf
  • $400,000
  • 3 yo's & up Fillies and Mares
  • 5:27 PM (local)
PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L
1 1Mom's On Strike (FL) Adam Beschizza 125 Joe Sharp 7/2
2 2Lottie (KY) Edgar S. Prado 121 H. Graham Motion 6/1
3 3Daring Duchess (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Jose L. Ortiz 125 Michael J. Maker 9/2
4 4Tricky Escape (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Christopher P. DeCarlo 125 Lynn A. Ashby 4/1
5 5Shezaprado (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Tyler Gaffalione 121 Michael J. Maker 20/1
6 6Space Cadet (KY) Declan Cannon 121 Sam Q. Logsdon 20/1
7 7Res Ipsa (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Julien R. Leparoux 121 Ian R. Wilkes 6/1
8 8Coco Channel (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Shaun Bridgmohan 121 Charles Lopresti 20/1
9 9Creative Thinking (KY) Drayden Van Dyke 125 Thomas F. Proctor 6/1
10 10Sea Swift (IRE) Jack Gilligan 121 Jack Sisterson 30/1
11 11Violet Blue (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Florent Geroux 121 James J. Toner 12/1