Six sophomore distaffers, including several with graded
stakes experience, have been entered for Saturday’s Grade III $100,000
Arlington Oaks. The mile and an eighth Polytrack race is the main event
on a 10-race program that gets underway at a special twilight post time of 4
p.m. to allow the track to present its annual “Racing, Music and Fireworks”
extravaganza in honor of America’s
birthday.
Topping the Arlington Oaks is Team Valor International
& Highfield Stock Farm’s Chantilly Nayla. The daughter of Five Star
Day returns to the main track after posting a fifth-place run on turf in the
$200,000 American 1000 Guineas
in May. Trained by eight-time Arlington champion Wayne Catalano,
Chantilly Nayla previously ran second in the Grade II Beaumont Stakes at
Keeneland in April and before that rattled off three successive scores on three
different surfaces dating back to last October. Four for eight in her
brief career, she will be ridden Saturday by James Graham, who was her pilot
for much of last winter and spring.
Bluegrass Equine Cemter, Sky Chai Racing LLC & Twin
Creek Farm’s Age of Humor also brings graded stakes-placed credentials to
Saturday’s Arlington Oaks. The daughter of Distorted Humor finished third
in the Grade III Silverbulletday Stakes at the Fair Grounds in February and
then ran second, beaten only a neck, in the Grade III Bourbonette Oaks at
Turfway Park the following month. Far back against better company in her
last two starts, the Mike Maker charge looks to rebound here. Quincy
Hamilton picks up the mount for the first time.
Barbara Hunter’s Snow
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has never finished worse than second in four trips to the post including a
runner-up finish in the Grade III Regret Stakes over the Churchill Downs turf
course in her most recent effort. The Tom proctor-trained daughter of
Najran has made but one start on a synthetic surface, breaking her maiden over
Keeneland’s Polytrack in April. Jesus Castanon has been named.
Stone Farm, John Adger, Oack Crest Farm and Michael
Stidham’s Upperline, fifth in the Grade I Ashland at Keeneland in April, makes
her first start since that race. The Maria’s Mon’s miss ran third in the
grassy Grade III Herecomesthebride Stakes at Gulfstream in March and third on
dirt in the Grade II Golden Rod at Churchill Downs last November. She
broke her maiden here last summer and later finished second to eventual Eclipse
Award-winning 2-year-old filly in the $50,000 Top Flight Stakes over this
Polytrack on Arlington Million Day. E. T. Baird gets the call.
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Dundalk 5 LLC’s Dundalk Dust carries a perfect two-for-two
record into the Arlington Oaks. Trained by Chris Block, the Illinois-bred
daughter of Military broke her maiden here on turf last August and returned to
win her first start as a 3-year-old when besting state-breds on June 6 in a
first-level allowance originally carded for turf but moved to the
Polytrack. Eduardo Perez is named.
Completing the field for Arlington Oaks is Jac Mac Stable
& C. E. Formby’s Laura Babe, runner up in a Churchill Downs allowance race
in her last start. Chris Emigh rides the daughter of City Zip for trainer
Richard Jackson.