Will Stroud’s Long Neck Paula and Mrs. John Magnier and Mrs. Paul Shanahan’s White Sands, two daylight stakes winners this summer at Prairie Meadows trained by Wesley Ward, highlight a field of 12 2-year-old fillies entered Friday for the fifth running of the $200,000 Myrtlewood.
Run at 6 furlongs on the main track, the Myrtlewood will go as the eighth race on next Friday’s 10-race program with a 4:44 p.m. ET post time. Oct. 25 is the second-to-last day of the Fall Meet.
A winner of two of three starts, Long Neck Paula won the 6-furlong Prairie Meadows Debutante by 7½ lengths as the 1-5 favorite in a field of seven on Aug. 23. Frankie Dettori has the mount from post 12.
White Sands, a half-sister to champion Jackie’s Warrior, has raced against the boys in her past two starts. On July 6, she won the 5½-furlong Prairie Gold Juvenile by 13¾ lengths and in her most recent start on Aug. 11 at Del Mar was third in the 6-furlong Best Pal (G3). Gerardo Corrales has the mount from post 4.
Also expected to attract attention is Mike Rutherford’s Glee.
Trained by Steve Asmussen, Glee was runner-up to Long Neck Paula at Prairie Meadows but came back Sept. 29 to win the 6½-furlong E.L. Gaylord Memorial at Remington Park by 15½ lengths. Erik Asmussen has the mount from post 2.
The field for the Myrtlewood, with trainers, riders and weights from the rail out, is:
Post | Horse | Trainer | Jockey | Weight |
1 | Mischievous Bria | Doug Anderson | Franciso Arrieta | 118 pounds |
2 | Glee | Steve Asmussen | Erik Asmussen | 120 |
3 | Echo Sound | Rusty Arnold | Irad Ortiz Jr. | 118 |
4 | White Sands | Wesley Ward | Gerardo Corrales | 120 |
5 | Dancing Magic | Michael Campbell | Flavien Prat | 118 |
6 | Praying | Robbie Medina | John Velazquez | 118 |
7 | Barbarina | Jon Jazdzewski | Emmanuel Esquivel | 118 |
8 | Andrea | Saffie Joseph Jr. | Tyler Gaffalione | 120 |
9 | Empirical Mischief | John Ennis | Edgar Morales | 118 |
10 | Trust Fund Philly | Peter Eurton | Jose Ortiz | 118 |
11 | Atomic City | Eddie Kenneally | Luis Saez | 118 |
12 | Long Neck Paula | Wesley Ward | Frankie Dettori | 120 |