Ultima Grace Returns at KY Downs After Queen Mary Fade

Earlier than staging the $1.5 million Gun Runner Stakes Sept. 8, Kentucky Downs will precede that race with three $1 million stakes for juveniles, all overdrawn.

Stakes at Kentucky Downs, an all-turf monitor within the southern a part of the state alongside the border with Tennessee, embrace dietary supplements for horses bred in Kentucky. Horses not bred within the Bluegrass State race for lesser however nonetheless sizable purses. Purses are huge at Kentucky Downs on account of purse-boosting historic horse racing gaming income and the monitor working solely seven days a yr.

C2 Racing Secure and Mathis Secure’s Solid Metal , a Vekoma   juvenile colt who broke his maiden in his second begin by 8 1/2 lengths at Gulfstream Park, is favored at 3-1 on the morning line within the Kentucky Downs Juvenile Mile Stakes. 

The Untapable Stakes for 2-year-old fillies at 6 1/2 furlongs contains quite a few current dash winners, plus For the Individuals Racing’s Ultima Grace . The daughter of American Pharoah   was a Keeneland first-out maiden winner in April who resumes racing in america after main and fading to twentieth within the June 19 Queen Mary Stakes (G2) at Royal Ascot for coach Wesley Ward. She races with blinkers off.

Juvenile fillies go an extended distance within the Kentucky Downs Juvenile Fillies Stakes at a mile.

Debut winners at Saratoga Race Course in routes—KatieRich Secure’s Could Day Prepared  (Tapit  ) and Gary Barber’s She’s Acquired Will  (Warfare of Will  )—are two contenders.