Chad Brown Seeks Rampart Double with Electric Forest

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Photo: Keeneland/Coady Photography
Electric Forest breaks her maiden April 7 at Keeneland

One year after Chad Brown trainee Lewis Bay scored a dominating, gate-to-wire run in the $100,000 Rampart Stakes (G3) at Gulfstream Park, the Eclipse Award-winning trainer will return to the Florida track Dec. 15 with another promising filly and a plan to go 2-for-2. 

In what will be only her fourth career start, the regally bred Electric Forest will be the youngest runner in Saturday's field that has drawn seven fillies and mares. A Stonestreet Stables homebred, Electric Forest is a daughter of Curlin  out of the Unbridled's Song mare Forest Music, a grade 2 winner. Electric Forest broke her maiden on debut at Keeneland April 7 before finishing off the board next out in an optional-claiming allowance race on the Longines Kentucky Oaks (G1) undercard May 4 at Churchill Downs

Sidelined until November, the 3-year-old filly was shipped to Aqueduct Racetrack, where she won a Nov. 17 allowance race by 2 1/2 lengths going seven furlongs on the dirt. The Rampart will mark Electric Forest's first foray into graded company as well as her first time stretching out to a mile. She will have the rail trip under jockey Jose Ortiz. 

Bringing no shortage of racing experience to the Rampart is Dorothy Matz's homebred 4-year-old Tequilita. The multiple graded stakes winner and daughter of Union Rags  has struggled to find her way to the winner's circle this year in seven starts, but enters off her most impressive effort of the season—a second-place finish in the Oct. 28 Pumpkin Pie Stakes at Belmont Park

Tequilita will break from post 5 and partner with jockey Luis Saez. 

After starting the year on a strong note with three consecutive victories at Delta Downs, culminating in a 3 1/4-length score in the March 9 Owner Appreciation Distaff Stakes, 4-year-old Inspeightofyou has struggled to maintain her momentum. In her past three starts, the Speightstown  filly has failed to hit the board. 

The Rampart will be the first start at Gulfstream for Inspeightofyou, who will attempt to take home her first graded win. The filly owned by Robert Slack and trained by Leon Minott worked four furlongs in :49 flat Dec. 8 at Gulfstream Park West. She will break from the outside post 7 under Luca Panici.