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Michael J. Ryan’s Irish homebred Be Your Best will vie for her second stakes score and first at the graded level for trainer Horacio De Paz in Saturday’s Grade 2, $200,000 Miss Grillo, a 1 1/16-mile inner turf test for juvenile fillies, at the Belmont at the Big A fall meet.
Verifying, a half-brother to 2019 Champion Older Dirt Female Midnight Bisou, will make his stakes debut in Saturday’s Champagne
Reigning Eclipse Award winner Joel Rosario travelled from Kentucky Downs to Churchill Downs winning three stakes races including two graded stakes to earn the title of Jockey of the Week for September 12 through September 18. The award, which is voted on by a panel of racing experts, honors jockeys who are members of the Jockeys’ Guild, the organization which represents more than 1050 active, retired and permanently disabled jockeys in the United States.
Four-time Eclipse Award-winning trainer Chad Brown will saddle a pair of top contenders in Kalifornia Queen and Love And Thunder in Saturday’s Grade 3, $175,000 Athena, a nine-furlong inner turf test for fillies and mares 3-years-old and up, at the Belmont at the Big A fall meet.
It’s always exciting to have a Grade 1-winning 2-year-old in the barn, but it is perhaps more so when it’s your first graded stakes winner in 11 years and first Grade 1 winner since 1993.