Kehoe Seaside got here into the Nov. 29 Mrs. Revere Stakes (G2T) at Churchill Downs off a pair of consecutive wins captured by a mixed 14 lengths and exited together with her first black-type victory.
The front-running 3-year-old daughter of Omaha Seaside gained the $292,335 1 1/16-mile race for sophomore fillies gate to wire for proprietor Thomas Bachman and coach Wesley Ward. The newly minted graded stakes winner was ridden by Frankie Dettori, who guided the even-money favourite by modest early fractions of :24.35, :48.57, and 1:12.49. On the high the stretch, Kehoe Seaside had a one-length benefit and by no means gave it up, profitable by 1 1/4 lengths in 1:42.45.
Resolute Racing’s Pounce , a a number of grade 3-winning daughter of Lookin At Fortunate , stalked Kehoe Seaside all through and held off a late cost by Poolside With Slim to complete second by a head. French challenger Minoushka , making her second begin in the US, was one other head again in fourth.
“She’s an excellent filly,” Dettori stated. “She’s robust however has tempo and could be very wise. She is aware of precisely methods to race, which makes it a push-button experience for me. Once I pushed that button she confirmed an excellent flip of foot like she did final time. Wesley was stuffed with confidence going into the race. He even made me keep right here within the chilly to experience her, and I wasn’t going to say no.”
Ward stated the filly has actually come handy for the reason that summer season. She broke her maiden on the primary observe at Keeneland in April, profitable by 6 1/2 lengths in a sloppy 6 1/2-furlong maiden particular weight. She then went unplaced in a six-furlong allowance race at Saratoga Race Course and was second by a head going 1 1/16 miles at Ellis Park in her first begin on the grass. The turf suited Kehoe Seaside and he or she adopted with an 8 1/2-length win going seven furlongs at Kentucky Downs after which a 5 1/2-length win going a mile at Keeneland.
“She’s such an enormous, highly effective filly. Now we’ll give her a break after which get her prepared for the spring,” Ward stated, noting that he would possible goal her for the Jenny Wiley Stakes (G1T) on the similar distance in April at Keeneland.
Bachman purchased Kehoe Seaside for $450,000 below the title Fairview in the course of the 2022 Keeneland September Yearling Sale from the Hunter Valley Farm consignment. John Bates, Ron Kirk, and Michael Riordan bred the filly out of the Avenue Cry daughter Candy Awakening. Kehoe Seaside is now the mare’s third stakes winner with the others together with a number of graded stakes winner and 2015-16 Canadian champion older horse Are You Kidding Me (Run Away and Disguise ); and, grade 3-placed stakes winner Core Values (Honor Code ).
Kehoe Seaside is the fourth graded stakes winner worldwide sired by Spendthrift Farm’s main second-crop sire Omaha Seaside, who leads his sire class by progeny earnings ($9.3 million), variety of black-type stakes winners (11), and variety of black-type performers (27). The Mrs. Revere victory makes him the chief by variety of Northern Hemisphere graded stakes winners as effectively with three.
