Thursday's 8th race (4:52PM ET) from Keeneland is the Jessamine Stakes for 2-year-old fillies traveling a mile and a sixteenth on the turf.
#4 Accept (8-1) won her flat mile turf bow at Ellis and returned to finish a rallying, close-up 3rd in the Happy Ticket Stakes on the Super Derby undercard at Louisiana Downs. She reunites with winning pilot Lebron and Maker is 23%
blinkers on. The $100,000 Keeneland sales grad is versatile and on the upswing.
#7 Miss Inclined (20-1) graduated on the turf second time out at Arlington Park and the place finisher from that heat was a
next out winner. She exits a respectable 5th of 13 in the Grade 3 Arlington-Washington Lassie and should appreciate a return to turf footing for the 36% Castanon/Von Hemel team.
#9 Silent Joy (4-1) ran into the promising
Winter Memories in her first start vs. winners over yielding ground at Belmont Oct 3. She smartly nabbed her turf sprint bow and it remains to be seen if she really wants two turns.
#10 Lauren Byrd (3-1) also won turf sprint bow and finished a wide 4th in a similar Saratoga turf route Sept 1. She will probably take too much action for Gomez/Pletcher.
#11 Kathmanblu (7-2) beat
Lauren Byrd in the P.G. Johnson Stakes last time and has run well in both turf route starts.
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