Pacing sophomores ready for Kentucky Championship
At 0h39, on August 10, 2021 • By THE RED MILE
Another round of state-bred competition starts on Tuesday (Aug. 10) at The Red Mile when the pacing 3-year-olds head to the gate for their $40,000 opening rounds of the Kentucky Championship Series.
Tuesday’s card opens with the lone dash for sophomore pacing fillies, led by Blue Diamond Eyes, following a tour de force performance in the $106,745 Adioo Volo at The Meadows. Ron Burke’s Captaintreacherous filly starts as the 3-2 morning-line choice from post four with Yannick Gingras in a field which includes Single Girl, Randy Jerrell’s Always A Virgin filly who is unbeaten from nine starts this season. Jerrell scores his charge from post three.
Colts and geldings cap the early double with their split of the Kentucky Championship Series. The field includes Exploit, winner of the 2020 Metro Pace. He enters following a seventh-place finish in his Adios elimination and starts from post two for trainer Tony Alagna and driver Dexter Dunn.
Toronto neighbors the slight morning-line favorite on the gate, with David Miller driving the Robert Cleary-trained gelding by Always B Miki out of champion mare See You At Peelers.
To their outside starts Komodo Beach, who won the prep for the Kentucky Championship on July 26 in 1:51 in rein to Todd McCarthy, who returns to drive the Brett Pelling-trained Somebeachsomewhere gelding.
The 10-race card also includes a pair of $20,000 divisions of the Kentucky Commonwealth Series, one for the boys and one for the fillies.
First-race post time is 1 p.m.
