Godolphin\u2019s champion filly Immersive has yet to find the winner\u2019s circle during her brief 3-year-old campaign but trainer Brad Cox hopes the filly can return to her 2-year-old form at her home track in Saturday\u2019s $175,000 Seneca Overnight Stakes (Listed) at Churchill Downs.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe ran well at Churchill Downs in the Monomoy Girl in June,\u201d Cox said. \u201cAfter that race we sent her back up to Saratoga for the second start off the layoff in the Coaching Club American Oaks, and (Scottish Lassie) ran away with things in a really short field. We got her back home to Churchill after that race and she\u2019s had five solid works leading into the Seneca. We\u2019re hoping she can bounce back on Saturday in her third start off the layoff.\u201d<\/p>\n
Immersive had a brilliant 2-year-old campaign, winning the Grade 1 Spinaway and Alcibiades (G1) prior to a 4 \u00bd-length score in the Breeders\u2019 Cup Juvenile Fillies.<\/p>\n
Saturday\u2019s Seneca will mark the first time jockey Florent Geroux will ride the daughter of Nyquist. She will break from the rail in the field of seven 3-year-old fillies.<\/p>\n
The Seneca, run at 1 1\/16 miles, will go as race 8 with a post time of 4:26 p.m. (all times Eastern). First post is 12:45 p.m.<\/p>\n
The field from the rail out (with jockey, trainer, and morning line odds):<\/p>\n
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Immersive (Geroux, Cox, 6-5)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Next Up (Mario Gutierrez, Matt Sims, 12-1)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Ivory and Ebony (Jose Ortiz, Dale Romans, 8-1)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Decadent (Manny Esquivel, Kenny McPeek, 8-1)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Liam in the Dust (Luan Machado, Rodolphe Brisset, 6-1)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Flash Wear (Corey Lanerie, Tommy Vance, 12-1)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Quickick (Brian Hernandez Jr., Tom Amoss, 5-2)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Dogwood Stakes Features Competitive Group Of Sprinting Fillies<\/p>\n
Saturday\u2019s strong 11-race program at Churchill Downs will feature four stakes races, headlined by the $300,000 Dogwood Stakes presented by Resolute Racing (G3). The program also includes the $300,000 Bourbon Trail; $300,000 Harrods Creek; and $175,000 Seneca Overnight Stakes (Listed).<\/p>\n
The Dogwood is led by two fillies exiting last month\u2019s Test Stakes (G1) at Saratoga: Gabriel Duignan\u2019s Echo Sound and Godolphin\u2019s Ragtime.<\/p>\n
Echo Sound, made the 6-5 morning-line favorite after finishing sixth in the Test, tuned up for Saturday\u2019s race at Keeneland, working a half-mile in :47.80 on Sept. 12 outside stablemate Glamorama. Florent Geroux, who was aboard for the drill, will ride from the rail.<\/p>\n
Ragtime will remove blinkers following her runner-up effort in the Test. She worked without them during a half-mile move in :50.80 on Sept. 15 at Churchill Downs while outside stablemate Cabaletta.<\/p>\n
Rigney Racing\u2019s Delightful Claire did not run in the Test but broke her maiden at the same seven-furlong distance on the same day at Saratoga, drawing off by 9 \u00bc lengths in 1:22.77 \u2013 .33 seconds faster than the Test.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll see if she can back up that maiden win,\u201d trainer Phil Bauer said. \u201cShe ran huge that day and the final time was faster than the field went in the Test. But she needs to back that up against this field.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the Bourbon Trail, several horses have opted for other spots, including Friday night\u2019s St. Louis Derby. Excite and Hypnus both shipped to Fairmont for that race, while Admiral Dennis, cross-entered in both races, has been sent to the farm and will not run.<\/p>\n
Here are the fields for the remaining stakes (with jockey, trainer, and morning line odds):<\/p>\n
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$300,000 Harrods Creek (race 7, 3:54 p.m.):<\/p>\n
Optical (James Graham, Keith Desormeaux, 15-1)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Semper Primus (Walter Rodriguez, Jimmy DiVito, 4-1)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Jimmy\u2019s Dailys (Jose Ortiz, Brian Lynch, 7-2)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
U Devil You (Edgar Morales, John Ortiz, 6-1)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Smoken Wicked (Brian Hernandez Jr., Dallas Stewart, 8-5)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Faster Gator (Jaime Torres, Anthony Farrior, 3-1)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
$300,000 Dogwood Stakes presented by Resolute Racing (race 9, 4:58 p.m.):<\/p>\n
Echo Sound (Florent Geroux, Rusty Arnold II, 9-5)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Gerlin\u2019s Empire (Brian Hernandez Jr., Dallas Stewart, 20-1)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Kay Cup (Jaime Torres, Jorge Abreu, 8-1)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Ragtime (Junior Alvarado, Bill Mott, 2-1)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Strong State (James Graham, Al Stall Jr., 15-1)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Sturgeon Moon (Cristian Torres, Will Walden, 10-1)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Delightful Claire (Jose Ortiz, Phil Bauer, 3-1)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Mega Mil (Axel Concepcion, John Servis, 20-1)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
$300,000 Bourbon Flight (race 10, 5:29 p.m.):<\/p>\n
Run Quiet Run Fast (Marcelino Pedroza Jr., Gerardo Rodriguez, 30-1)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Brotha Keny (Jose Ortiz, Bill Morey, 6-1)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Excite (Irad Ortiz Jr., Bill Mott, 5-1)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Hypnus (Brian Hernandez Jr., Kenny McPeek, 8-1)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Chunk of Gold (Loveberry, West, 8-5)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Whiskey Shot (Florent Geroux, Rodolphe Brisset, 20-1)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Admiral Dennis (Machado, Cox, 2-1)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Just a Fair Shake (Axel Concepcion, Daniel McKenzie, 15-1)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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