After its opening Saturday of racing on Sept. 14 targeted on juveniles and older horses, the Churchill Downs stakes program spotlights the 3-year-old division Sept. 21
4 stakes for 3-year-olds happen, led by one graded race, the $300,000 Dogwood Stakes (G3) for fillies at seven furlongs the place My Mane Squeeze is the headliner. Fillies are additionally in motion within the Seneca In a single day Stakes at 1 1/16 miles, whereas males pursue alternatives within the 1 3/16-mile Bourbon Flight Stakes and seven-furlong Harrods Creek Stakes, each value $300,000.
My Mane Squeeze, skilled by Mike Maker for homeowners William “Buck” Butler and WinStar Farm, returns to Churchill Downs to race for the primary time since capturing the Eight Belles Stakes (G2) on Kentucky Oaks Day on the Louisville, Ky., monitor. Since then, she ran fourth within the June 7 Acorn Stakes (G1) at 1 1/8 miles at Saratoga Race Course, third within the Aug. 3 Check Stakes (G1) there, and second within the Aug. 23 Charles City Oaks (G2), the latter two at seven furlongs.
Sluggish into stride within the Charles City Oaks, she was carried vast across the first of two tight turns at Hollywood On line casino at Charles City Races however recovered to seize the runner-up spot behind blowout winner Mystic Lake.
Luis Saez, aboard for the reason that Eight Belles, returns within the irons.
A homebred for Butler out of his high broodmare In Speight of Mama, My Mane Squeeze is a New York-bred daughter of WinStar Farm stallion Audible  and has a 5-1-3 report from 11 begins and race-high earnings of $838,110.
She races for $250,000 within the Dogwood, owing to $50,000 of the entire purse being Kentucky Thorougbred Improvement Fund incentives for Kentucky-breds. The opposite three stakes are additionally bolstered by KTDF funds.
The Dogwood opposition is led by fellow stakes winners Halina’s Forte , Manama Gold , and Fibber .
Batten Down, Jefferson Avenue Obtain Class Reduction
Different notable stakes horses in motion Saturday embody Juddmonte’s Batten Down , winner of the Ohio Derby (G3) and most lately fifth within the Travers Stakes (G1), who leads the Bourbon Flight; Godolphin’s Jefferson Avenue , who drops at school after a seventh in a loaded renewal of H. Allen Jerkens Memorial Stakes (G1), now leads the Harrods Creek; and graded stakes winners Chatalas and Life Discuss search to get again on monitor after going unplaced of their most up-to-date begins once they compete within the Seneca In a single day Stakes.
Corridor of Fame coach Invoice Mott trains each Batten Down and Jefferson Avenue and has introduced his high New York-based rider, Junior Alvarado, in for the rides on that duo. Alvarado has additionally gained the mounts on Halina’s Forte for Phil Bauer and Life Discuss for Corridor of Fame coach Todd Pletcher.
The 4 stakes are races 7-10 on an 11-race program, of which all the card is on grime.
There isn’t a turf racing in the course of the ongoing meet at Churchill Downs, as monitor officers hope to strengthen its troubled turf course after work carried out on it this summer time.
Entries: Bourbon Flight S.
Churchill Downs, Saturday, September 21, 2024, Race 7
- STK
- 1 3/16m
- Filth
- $300,000
- 3 yo
- 3:53 PM (native)
Entries: Dogwood S. (G3)
Churchill Downs, Saturday, September 21, 2024, Race 8
- Grade III
- 7f
- Filth
- $300,000
- 3 yo Fillies
- 4:25 PM (native)
Entries: Harrods Creek S.
Churchill Downs, Saturday, September 21, 2024, Race 9
- STK
- 7f
- Filth
- $300,000
- 3 yo
- 4:58 PM (native)
Entries: Seneca In a single day S.
Churchill Downs, Saturday, September 21, 2024, Race 10
- STK
- 1 1/16m
- Filth
- $175,000
- 3 yo Fillies
- 5:29 PM (native)
