A confirmed a number of graded stakes winner on filth, Crazy Beautiful will have an opportunity Oct. 29 to showcase her stakes talent on another surface, the turf.
Phoenix Thoroughbred III’s Liam’s Map filly has made one previous start on grass, resulting in a 3 1/2-length maiden win on debut at Ellis Park in July 2020. Now she is amongst an overflow subject for the $150,000 Rubicon Valley View Stakes (G3T) at Keeneland, which additionally drew undefeated grade 1 winner Lady Speightspeare and recent Kentucky Downs stakes winners Tobys Heart and Adventuring .
“She broke her maiden on it and there wasn’t another 3-year-old filly race around,” trainer Kenny McPeek said of entering Crazy Beautiful in the turf stakes. “She’s continued to thrive and I thought ‘let’s give her another run on it.’ I think it’s all to gain, nothing to lose. It’s a good level for her, grade 3 race, but she’s been a really good filly.”
On the first of the month at Churchill Downs, Loopy Stunning dug in for a neck victory on the principle monitor within the Seneca In a single day Stakes racing 1 1/16 miles, the identical distance because the Valley View. She has 4 wins from six begins on the distance, together with on this 12 months’s Delaware Oaks (G3), Summertime Oaks (G2), and Gulfstream Park Oaks (G2).
“She’s simply been a tough knocker from the get-go,” McPeek stated. “She’s simply been an actual strong filly and continues to be. She’s simple to be round, she likes to work day by day, she loves to coach, and run.”
Brian Hernandez Jr. will return within the irons from submit 3.
Loopy Stunning is entered in The November Sale, Fasig-Tipton’s marquee breeding inventory sale Nov. 9 in Lexington. She is consigned by Denali Stud, agent, as Hip 153 and supplied as a racing or broodmare prospect.
Additionally within the Valley View is Charles Fipke’s flippantly raced however undefeated Woman Speightspeare. The homebred daughter of Speightstown was a late scratch in the Oct. 16 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes Presented by Dixiana (G1T) at Keeneland after acting up in the gate.
Lady Speightspeare won her lone start of the season, a 1 1/16-mile allowance optional claimer on the Woodbine turf in September. It was her first begin in practically a 12 months since capturing the Natalma Stakes (G1T) there.
Common rider Emma-Jayne Wilson will probably be again aboard for coach Roger Attfield in submit 11.
Terry Hamilton, coach Brian Lynch, and Gary Barber’s Tobys Coronary heart stretches again out after successful the Sept. 12 Nelson’s Inexperienced Brier Whiskey Music Metropolis Stakes at 6 1/2 furlongs. The Jack Milton filly rallied past the field for a 2 3/4-length score in that Kentucky Downs event, her third career black-type win. She now seeks to make the grade. Joel Rosario has the call from post 4.
Godolphin’s Adventuring also enters off a Kentucky Downs stakes win. The Brad Cox trainee, a winner of the Bourbonette Oaks on Turfway Park‘s Tapeta earlier this 12 months, dueled all through within the Sept. 5 Exacta Methods Dueling Grounds Oaks earlier than placing away her rivals for a 1 3/4-length victory. Florent Geroux will experience the homebred Pioneerof the Nile filly from submit 7.
EuroLindy Syndicate’s Queenship will make her U.S. debut in the Valley View. She has made four starts in Ireland for Joseph O’Brien, who has trained the Excelebration daughter for three straight wins. Last out Queenship won the Sept. 28 Navigation Stakes racing a mile at Cork. Julien Leparoux will be aboard in post 12.
There is a threat of rain Oct. 28 and Friday in Lexington, which could leave the turf course less than firm.
Entries: Rubicon Valley View S. (G3T)
Keeneland, Friday, October 29, 2021, Race 9
- Grade IIIT
- 1 1/16m
- Turf
- $150,000
- 3 yo Fillies
- 5:16 PM (native)
