Sunday, July 29, 2012
Jon Forbes
RACE 5, TWO-YEAR-OLD FILLIES, 5 ½ FURLONGS, TURF, 3:13 P.M.
SMITTENWITHKITTEN (2yo chestnut filly, Kitten’s Joy—Blush, by Menifee) is a full-sister to stakes winners William’s Kitten and Derby Kitten. As a 2-year-old, William’s Kitten won an off-the-turf edition of the Sunday Silence listed stakes at Louisiana Downs and was second in the Grade 2 Kentucky Jockey Club. He added a placing in the Grade 3 Holy Bull as a 3-year-old. Derby Kitten won a pair of stakes on Polytrack, including the Grade 2 Lexington and owns three black-type placings on turf.
Owner: Kenneth & Sarah Ramsey
Trainer: Michael Maker
Jockey: Rose Napravnik
SABEL BROWNE (2yo bay filly, Footstepsinthesand—Haute Volta, by Grape Tree Road) is a half-sister to Super Motiva, who won listed stakes in Italy at the ages of 2 and 3. Their dam, an unraced daughter of stakes-placed runner Land of Ivory, is a half-sister to Heart of Darkness, who captured the Group 1 National Stakes in Ireland.
Owner: West Point Thoroughbreds
Trainer: H. Graham Motion
Jockey: Julien Leparoux