Wide-Open Field Set for Cardinal Handicap

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Photo: Coady Photography
Bonnie Arch wins the Ellis Park Turf Stakes at Ellis Park

A highly contentious field of 10 filly and mare turf specialists are set for the $100,000 Cardinal Handicap (G3T), a 1 1/8-mile test over the grass Nov. 22 at Churchill Downs.

The Cardinal Handicap field is topped by 118-pound starting highweights Bonnie Arch, the Ellis Park Turf Stakes winner, and One Dreamer Stakes runner-up I Remember Mama.

Bonnie Arch, owned by Clarendon Stable, scored a half-length win in the Ellis Park Turf for trainer Ian Wilkes July 8. The 5-year-old Regal Ransom mare then finished third in the Kentucky Downs Preview Ladies Turf Stakes at Ellis Park prior to a lackluster eighth-place finish in the Kentucky Downs Ladies Turf Stakes (G3T), which was won by Insta Erma.

The homebred will be ridden by Wilkes' son-in-law Chris Landeros from the far outside post 10.

On the opposite end of the starting gate is Lewis Schaffel's I Remember Mama, who recently scored a one-length win at Keeneland in an Oct. 27 allowance race. The 4-year-old filly by Ghostzapper  finished a half-length behind Bonnie Arch in the Ellis Park Turf before her second-place finish in the One Dreamer at Kentucky Downs.

Trained by Tommy Drury Jr., I Remember Mama has not been worse than third in her seven career starts and will be ridden by Brian Hernandez Jr.


Entries: Cardinal H. (G3T)

Churchill Downs, Thursday, November 22, 2018, Race 9

  • Grade IIIT
  • 1 1/8m
  • Turf
  • $100,000
  • 3 yo's & up Fillies and Mares
  • 3:24 PM (local)
PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L
1 1I Remember Mama (KY) Brian Joseph Hernandez, Jr. 118 Thomas Drury, Jr. 5/2
2 2Amboseli (KY) Florent Geroux 117 James M. Cassidy 8/1
3 3Space Cadet (KY) Rafael Mojica, Jr. 113 Sam Q. Logsdon 12/1
4 4Coachwhip (KY) Ricardo Santana, Jr. 116 Jack Sisterson 8/1
5 5English Affair (KY) Corey J. Lanerie 117 George R. Arnold, II 5/1
6 6Lipstick City (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Tyler Gaffalione 116 David Fawkes 10/1
7 7Unbridled Escape (MD) Jose R. Betancourt 114 Kelly Lynn Deiter 30/1
8 8Coco Channel (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Edgar Morales 114 Charles Lopresti 10/1
9 9La Manta Gris (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Declan Cannon 116 George R. Arnold, II 6/1
10 10Bonnie Arch (KY) Chris Landeros 118 Ian R. Wilkes 4/1