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Champion Nest Headlines Star-Studded Field for $600,000 Juddmonte Spinster on Opening Sunday of Keeneland Fall Meet

Repole Stable, Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and Michael House’s champion Nest heads a deep field of seven fillies and mares entered Tuesday for Sunday’s 68th running of the $600,000 Juddmonte Spinster (G1). 

In addition to Nest, a three-time Grade 1 winner, the Juddmonte Spinster also attracted Juddmonte’s Idiomatic, winner of this summer’s Personal Ensign (G1).  

Two other stakes are on Sunday’s 10-race program: the 33rd running of the $350,000 Castle & Key Bourbon (G2) – which drew a field of 12 plus three also-eligibles headed by stakes winners Noted, owned by Repole Stable, Joseph Morey Jr.’s Vote No and Wertheimer and Frere’s Tok Tok – and the sixth running of the $250,000 Indian Summer (L) Presented by Keeneland Select, which drew a field of 10 headed by two-time stakes winner Amidst Waves, who is owned by the partnership of 
R. A. Hill Stables, BlackRidge Stables, Swinbank Stables, Big Tuff Stables and Black Type Thoroughbreds. 

The fields for the three Sunday stakes, with trainers, riders and weights from the rail out, are: 

Race 8, 4:44 p.m. -- $250,000 Indian Summer (L) Presented by Keeneland Select, 2-year-olds, 5½ furlongs (turf):

PostHorseTrainerJockeyWeight
1ShardsKelsey DannerAdam Beschizza118 pounds
2Amidst WavesGeorge WeaverJohn Velazquez117
3CowesWayne CatalanoJose Lezcano118
4Sponge BathWayne CatalanoTyler Gaffalione118
5CandymakerSteve AsmussenIrad Ortiz Jr.118
6Committee of OneSteve AsmussenCristian Torres118
7BledsoeWesley WardLuis Saez118
8FairhopecurlyBill MoreyGerardo Corrales115
9RiparoundJohn EnnisEdgar Morales115
10PinotslilgirlJohn EnnisJack Gilligan115


Race 9, 5:16 p.m. -- $600,000 Juddmonte Spinster (G1), 3-year-olds and up, fillies and mares, 1 1/8 miles, “Win and You’re In” race for the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1):

PostHorseTrainerJockeyWeight
1SixtythreecaliberTom AmossEdgar Morales124
2IdiomaticBrad CoxFlorent Geroux124
3NestTodd PletcherIrad Ortiz Jr.124
4Le Da Vida (CHI)Ignacio Correas IVVincent Cheminaud124
5BellamoreCarlos SantamariaMartin Garcia124
6Misty VeilMike MakerJames Graham124
7MalloyWayne CatalanoJose Lezcano124


Race 10, 5:48 p.m. -- $350,000 Castle & Key Bourbon (G2), 2-year-olds, 1 1/16 miles (turf), “Win and You’re In” race for the $1 million Prevagen Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1):

PostHorseTrainerJockeyWeight
1Palm TreeBrendan WalshDeclan Cannon118
2Gorilla TrekPhil BauerJulien Leparoux118
3DepictionCherie DeVauxCristian Torres118
4Can GroupMark CasseFrancisco Arrieta118
5NotedTodd PletcherIrad Ortiz Jr.120
6Vote NoBill MoreyGerardo Corrales118
7Fortune SellerKevin RiceJose Lezcano118
8Tok TokGraham MotionJohn Velazquez120
9Coin MinerKeith DesormeauxJames Graham118
10NomosTodd PletcherLuis Saez118
11Double Your MoneyBrian LynchRicardo Santana Jr.118
12First World WarBrendan WalshTyler Gaffalione118
13AEGood BaliRusty ArnoldMartin Garcia118
14AETough Little NutChris BlockJose Lezcano118
15AETirelessTodd PletcherLuis Saez118