B. B. Dude tops Churchill's final Spendthrift Juvenile Stallion Stakes
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Jerry Durant’s two-time stakes winning colt B. B. Dude tops the third and final edition of the $300,000 Spendthrift Juvenile Stallion Stakes on Sunday’s “Stars of Tomorrow” card at Churchill Downs.
The seven-furlong Spendthrift Juvenile Stallion Stakes, a race for 2-year-olds that were sired by Spendthrift-owned stallions, has a purse structured with a unique $150,000 to the owners of the placed horses, with the other $150,000 allocated to award breeders of the first-through-fourth-place finishers. Specifically, the winning breeder will earn $60,000 with $40,000 going to the breeder of the runner-up, $30,000 for third and $20,000 for fourth.
Spendthrift Farm has announced the discontinuation of the Spendthrift Stallions Stakes at Churchill Downs after 2018, citing a refusal by the North American International Cataloguing Standards Committee to give black-type consideration as the reason.
B. B. Dude, bred in Kentucky by Sally Thomas and New Dawn Stable, is a 2-year-old colt by Shakin It Up out of the Unbridled’s Song mare Purrfect Song. The Steve Asmussen trainee was successful in three out of his four-career starts.
Most recently, B. B. Dude won the Sept. 30 Kip Deville Stakes at Remington Park and was victorious in the Aug. 18 Manzano Stakes at The Downs Racetrack in Albuquerque, N.M.
Asmussen’s first-call rider Ricardo Santana Jr. has the mount and will break from post position No. 5.
Chief among B. B. Dude’s competitors is Merriebelle Stable’s homebred Into the South, who finished fourth in the Oct. 9 Matron (G3) at Belmont Park following her maiden-breaking score over the Saratoga dirt surface on Aug. 26.
Trained by Ignacio Correas IV, Into the South will be ridden by jockey Florent Geroux and will break from post 8.
Among the challengers in the nine-horse race is Five 02 Racing and Bob Bradley’s gutsy maiden winner Distorted Jimmy for trainer Norm Casse. The colt by Jimmy Creed has been targeting this race since his maiden-breaking performance on Sept. 15 at Churchill Downs, according to the 35-year-old conditioner.
Distorted Jimmy was bred in Kentucky by Judy Clemow.
The Spendthrift Stallion Stakes is carded as Race 10 of 11 Sunday with a post time of 5:36 p.m. EDT.
The complete Spendthrift Juvenile Stallion Stakes field from the rail out (with jockey and trainer): Achilles Warrior (Julien Leparoux, Mark Hennig); Distorted Jimmy (Robby Albarado, Casse); Gentle Warrior (Chris Landeros, Ian Wilkes); Kajawa (Jack Gilligan, Michelle Lovell); B. B. Dude (Santana, Asmussen); Dunph (Tyler Gaffalione, Mike Maker); Casa Creed (Junior Alvarado, Bill Mott); Into the South (Geroux, Correas); and Naughty Joker (Julio Garcia, Wesley Ward).
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