Racing

Jenny Wiley Beat Goes On For Trainer Chad Brown

Before Saturday’s 36th running of the Jenny Wiley (G1), trainer Chad Brown had won the race six times. Five winners were betting favorites. The sixth, Sistercharlie (IRE), was the second choice of the public and the most fancied of three Brown runners who just happened to finish 1-2-3 in the 2018 race.

After Saturday’s race, Brown had another statistical tidbit to put on his Jenny Wiley resume: largest mutuel payoff for a winner.

Madaket Stables, Michael Dubb and Louis Lazzinnaro’s Beaute Cachee (FR) proved uncatchable under a masterful ride from Frankie Dettori to reward her fans with a $53.68 payoff for a $2 investment.

“We had a 7-2, a 9-2 and a 13-1 and who wins it? The 25-1,” said Baldo Hernandez, who is overseeing the Keeneland string for Brown. “They are all good this morning.”

Surge Capacity finished fourth, Fluffy Socks was sixth and Gina Romantica was seventh.

Brown left Keeneland after the race to go to Florida with a scheduled stop this week in Ocala. He is to return to Keeneland on Thursday for a scheduled Saturday work from Toyota Blue Grass (G1) winner Sierra Leone.

Beaute Cachee won the Jenny Wiley by 1½ lengths over favored English Rose (IRE).

“She showed good speed, ran strong and was very professional,” trainer Charlie Appleby said of English Rose, who is owned by Godolphin. “It was a good learning experience for us. She is a carbon copy of With The Moonlight (IRE) (who was second in the Jenny Wiley last year). We need to bring a little sharper filly next year.”

Appleby, who was headed back to England today along with jockey William Buick, said English Rose would remain in the U.S. Her next target is the $500,000 Just a Game (G1) going a mile or the New York (G1) Presented by Rivers Casino going 1 3/16 miles. Both are scheduled for June 7 at Saratoga.

Before leaving Keeneland, Appleby sent Maker’s Mark Mile (G1) winner Master of The Seas (IRE) to the all-weather training track for light exercise.

“We are looking at the ($500,000) Fourstardave (G1) next for him,” Appleby said of the mile race at Saratoga on Aug. 10. “(For Maker’s Mark Mile runner-up) Naval Power (GB), we are looking strongly at running him at Churchill Downs (in the 1 1/8-mile, $1 million Old Forester Bourbon Turf Classic-G1 on May 4.).”

Finishing third in the Jenny Wiley was Didia (ARG) for the partnership of Merriebelle Stable and Resolute Racing.

“She came out of the race well,” trainer Ignacio Correas IV said. “I don’t think she liked the ‘good’ ground. I doubt she will go to Churchill (for the $750,000 Churchill Distaff Turf Mile-G2 on May 4).”