Evenly Matched Edgewood Attracts Ten

Starlight Racing’s two-time stakes winner Candy Kitty and Ken and Sarah Ramsey’s Granny Mc’s Kitten head an evenly matched field of 10 3-year-old fillies that will go postward in the 29th running of the $150,000-added Edgewood Presented by Forcht Bank.

 

Candy Kitty captured two stakes during the winter meet at Gulfstream Park and finished second in the Herecomesthebride Stakes (GII). Trained by Todd Pletcher, Candy Kitty will break from post position four and be ridden by John Velazquez.

 

Trained by Chad Brown, Granny Mc’s Kitten won the P.G. Johnson at Saratoga last summer in her second career start. Joel Rosario has the call on Granny Mc’s Kitten and break from post position three.

 

The field for the Edgewood that goes as the ninth race with a 4:02 p.m. post time, from the hedge out, is as follows: Miss Machiavelli (Kent Desormeaux, 118 pounds), Courageous Julie (Rosie Napravnik, 118, Granny Mc’s Kitten (Rosario, 118), Candy Kitty (Velazquez, 120), Little Journey (FR) (Jose Lezcano, 118), A Little Bit Sassy (Luis Saez, 118), Istanford (Javier Castellano, 118), V V Goodnight (Alan Garcia, 118), Fonepheresh (IRE) (Joe Rocco Jr., 118) and Resistivity (Julien Leparoux, 118).