Coach Rusty Arnold notched his three hundredth win at Keeneland Oct. 23 when Neon Icon scored in an allowance non-obligatory claiming race, and the 69-year-old horseman stored his momentum going Oct. 25 at his hometown monitor in Lexington by notching one other three wins. This included back-to-back wins within the Myrtlewood Stakes and the Valley View Stakes (G2T) with Echo Sound and Poolside With Slim , respectively.
“I am having an excellent day,” Arnold mentioned with a smile throughout an in-house postrace tv interview.
Poolside With Slim took the largest prize within the $318,468 Valley View, slipping up the within of pacesetter Pharoah’s Wine beneath worldwide driving legend Frankie Dettori. The bottom he saved seemingly proved a distinction maker, permitting his filly to register a 1 1/4-length triumph in a aggressive mile turf race for 3-year-old fillies. She raced a mile in 1:36 over a agency turf course, returning $7.94 to win.
Pharoah’s Wine, who set fractions of :23.89, 48.51, and 1:12.81, narrowly held second by a head over an on-coming Buttercream Babe , who confirmed.
Merely in Entrance was fourth and favored Les Reys was fifth.
Poolside With Slim, bred by Kilweelran in Eire and owned by Glenn S. Bromagen II, Patrick Lewis, and Sandra Bromagen, notched her third victory in eight begins, two of them in stakes. She gained the Penn Oaks beneath Dettori again in Could.
Dettori credited Arnold for advising him to take Poolside With Slim from off the tempo, a tactical change that appeared to lead to enchancment.
“She’s simply a type of fillies that is acquired a brief kick, and the longer you wait, the higher you’re,” mentioned Arnold, the meet’s third-leading coach with eight wins.
She gave him his second victory within the Valley View, a race he first gained in 2021 with Navratilova .
Out of Epaulette mare Kissepal, she is a daughter of the high-class Churchill , sire of European champion Vadeni and French champion Blue Rose Cen . Churchill stood this previous breeding season at Coolmore Stud for €30,000 or roughly $32,400.
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Echo Sound Makes Noise in Stakes Debut in Myrtlewood
A race earlier than the Valley View, Echo Sound pushed her unbeaten document to 3-for-3 for Arnold in catching Praying and drawing clear by 2 1/2 lengths within the $197,969 Myrtlewood Stakes for 2-year-old fillies.
As in her two earlier victories, first at Ellis Park after which at Churchill Downs, Echo Sound was efficient racing from simply off the early tempo. She stalked front-runners White Sands and Praying within the six-furlong Myrtlewood by way of fractions of :21.86 and :45.72 earlier than asserting her superiority within the stretch beneath Irad Ortiz Jr. She was clocked in a remaining time of 1:10.65 on a quick most important monitor. She returned $8.96 for a $2 win wager.
Belief Fund Philly rallied to point out behind Echo Sound and Praying.
The winner, bred in Kentucky by Springhouse Farm, Imaginative and prescient TBs, Bruce Pieratt, and Patricia Pieratt, is owned by Gabriel “Spider” Duignan. She is a daughter of Ashford Stud stallion Echo City out of the Fusaichi Pegasus mare Eagle Sound .
