Monday, October 07, 2002
'Lady' captures Spinster
Trainer: Filly 'just awesome'
Enquirer staff and news services
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Even-money favorite Take Charge Lady surged past pacesetting You in the final turn for a 21/2-length win in Sunday's $546,000 Grade I Spinster Stakes for fillies and mares at Keeneland.
Owned by Select Stable of Cincinnatians Feye and Jerry Bach and ridden by Edgar Prado, Take Charge Lady won for the fifth time in six starts this year.
The 3-year-old filly has finished first or second in 11 of 12 starts and became the first filly since Optimistic Gal in the 1970s to win Keeneland's top three races for females. Take Charge Lady also won the Alicibiades Stakes last fall and the Ashland Stakes in the spring.
“She's just awesome,” trainer Ken McPeek said. “She loves Keeneland.”
Prado won his fourth graded stakes of the weekend and second of the day.
Earlier Sunday, Prado and Landseer, a 3-year-old colt making his American debut, caught 3-5 favorite and Arlington Million winner Beat Hollow in the stretch and held off Touch of the Blues by a neck to win the $600,000 Shadwell Mile.
The win stamped him as a top contender for the Breeders' Cup Mile at Arlington Park on Oct.26.
INDIANA DERBY: Perfect Drift, winner of the Lane's End Spiral Stakes and third to War Emblem in the Kentucky Derby, won by three-quarters of a length in the $414,700 Grade III race at Hoosier Park. It was the gelding's first start since finishing a distant 10th in the Belmont Stakes on June8.
ARC DE TRIOMPHE: Marienbard took the lead in the final 150 yards and held off Sulamani by three-quarters of a length to win at Longchamps in Paris. The 5-year-old Marienbard gave Sheik Mohammed's Dubai-based Godolphin Racing its second consecutive victory in Europe's top horse race.
SANTA ANITA: Pleasantly Perfect, who lacks graded stakes points to get into the Breeders' Cup Classic, made a case for his inclusion with a 31/4-length victory in the $500,000 Goodwood Breeders' Cup Handicap.
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'Lady' captures Spinster
