Apropos Taking Aim at G3 Winning Colors

 

Conditioned by Al Stall Jr., Apropos won her first two starts of 2014 at Oaklawn Park, an allowance optional claiming as well as the American Beauty, which was her first stakes win. She finished third behind Judy the Beauty and Better Lucky going seven furlongs on the Keeneland Polytrack in the Madison.

 

“Apropos has been training great,” Stall said. “This is a race we’ve been keying on since the Madison, which is a race she ran really well in. She ended up getting trapped down in the one hole after a scratch and ran a great race. I was very pleased with that effort and we were happy with a Grade I placing. She likes this racetrack (Churchill Downs), she’s got a good record here, she got a great draw and we’re very excited about running her.”

 

In three starts under the Twin Spires, which were all in the 2013 Spring/Summer meet, she won an allowance optional claiming race, placed second in another allowance optional claiming event and was runner-up in the Roxelana. She will break from post position seven on Monday with Shaun Bridgmohan at the reigns.

 

“From the outside post it looks like she is going to be comfortable and handy, and it looks like there’s going to be a ton of speed in the race,” Stall said. “With the draw and Shaun riding her, who’s ridden her several times, I like where she is.”

 

The Winning Colors, a six-furlong dirt test for fillies and mares, has an approximate post time of 5:20 p.m. Monday.