Sharing, undefeated Alms clash in Churchill's Tepin Stakes

Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and Gainesway Stable’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf winner Sharing is set to make her 3-year-old debut in Saturday’s first running of the $100,000 Tepin Stakes – one of five stakes events on “Stephen Foster Preview Day” at Churchill Downs.

The one-mile Tepin Stakes, named after the brilliant two-time Eclipse Award-winning turf mare, is slated as Race 8 with a post time of 4:40 p.m. ET.

Saturday’s program features a stakes bonanza topped by the $150,000 Matt Winn (G3) for 3-year-olds on the Road to the Kentucky Derby. Other stakes events on the card are the $100,000 Blame, $100,000 Shawnee and $100,000 War Chant.

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Sharing, a Maryland-bred daughter of Speightstown, has not been seen since her 1 1/4-length score in the Breeders’ Cup at Santa Anita. Trained by Graham Motion, Sharing’s only blemish in her four-race career was a narrow third-place effort in her debut. Following the Breeders’ Cup, Sharing was given a break but returned to Motion’s Fair Hill training center in March and has been consistently working toward her sophomore debut.

Jockey Manny Franco, who was aboard Sharing in the Breeders’ Cup, will be back aboard in the Tepin from post No. 9.

Chief among Sharing’s opposition in the Tepin is Godolphin’s undefeated filly Alms. Trained by Mike Stidham, Alms is a perfect 4-for-4 in her career, including stakes victories in the Matron Stakes (G3), Jimmy Durante (G3) and Shantel Lanerie Memorial Overnight Stakes.

Paco Lopez will be aboard Alms in the Tepin from post 14.

The field for the Tepin will also include Florida Oaks (G3) winner Outburst; Here Comes the Bride (G3) runner-up Abscond; Ginger Brew Stakes runner-up Moral Reasoning; and Bourbonette Oaks hero Queen of God.

Racing on the Matt Winn Turf Course for Saturday will be staged from the hedge with no temporary inside rail.