Spicy Marg Wins Thursday’s Featured Whisper Hill Purse

Wayne Lyster III, Gray Lyster and Bryan Lyster’s Spicy Marg shot to the front at the start and never was headed in winning Thursday’s featured $86,000 Whisper Hill Purse for fillies and mares by 1¾ lengths over Amusing Antics. (Click here for a replay of the race.)
Trained by Wesley Ward and ridden by Tyler Gaffalione, Spicy Marg covered the 5½ furlongs on a turf course labeled as good in 1:02.80. It was the third victory of the afternoon for Gaffalione, who for the fourth time in the first 10 days of the Fall Meet has ridden three or more winners on a single program.

A 3-year-old Kentucky-bred daughter of Into Mischief out of the Tiznow mare Tizasong, Spicy Marg improved her record to 7-2-1-2 and her earnings to $140,020 with Thursday’s $51,600 check.

Spicy Marg, who was sent off as the favorite in the field of seven, returned $5.20, $4 and $2.80. Amusing Antics, ridden by Florent Geroux, returned $11.60 and $5.20 with Hey Kitten finishing third under Chris Landeros and paying $2.60 to show.

Racing continues Friday with a 10-race program beginning at 1 p.m. ET. The afternoon’s featured race is the $150,000 Sycamore (G3) for turf marathoners going 1½ miles. The Sycamore is the eighth race with a 4:44 p.m. post time.