Full field is lined up for Friday's Valley View at Keeneland

Photo: Victor Biro/Eclipse Sportswire

Charles Fipke’s undefeated Lady Speightspeare, scratched at the gate for the Oct. 16 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup (G1), headlines an overflow field of 14 3-year-old fillies plus two also-eligibles entered Sunday for Friday’s 31st running of the Valley View (G3) at Keeneland.

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Slated to be run at 1 1/16 miles on the turf, the Valley View will go as the ninth race on Friday afternoon’s 10-race program with a 5:16 p.m. EDT post time. First post Friday is 1 p.m.

Trained by Roger Attfield, Lady Speightspeare has won all three of her starts, highlighted by a victory in last year’s Natalma (G1) at Woodbine. Emma-Jayne Wilson, who has been aboard for all of Lady Speightspeare’s starts, will ride Friday and break from post 11.

The other graded-stakes winner in the field is Lazy F Ranch’s homebred Gam’s Mission.

Trained by Cherie DeVaux, Gam’s Mission returns to the races for the first time since finishing fifth in the Saratoga Oaks Invitational (G3) in August. Prior to that, Gam’s Mission was fourth in the Belmont Oaks Invitational (G1) after winning the Regret (G3) at Churchill Downs.

Adam Beschizza will have the mount Friday and break from post 14.

Six other grass stakes winners in the field are Godolphin’s Adventuring (Dueling Grounds Oaks), BBN Racing’s Core Values (Preview Dueling Grounds Derby), Peachtree Stable’s Saranya (Curtis Sampson Oaks), G. Watts Humphrey Jr.’s Navratilova (Tepin), EuroLindy Syndicate’s Queenship (IRE) (Navigation Stakes in Ireland) and Terry Hamilton, Gary Barber and trainer Brian Lynch’s three-time stakes winner Tobys Heart.

Also entered is Phoenix Thoroughbred III’s Crazy Beautiful, a three-time graded stakes winner on dirt who won going a mile on the grass in her racing debut last year at 2 for trainer Kenny McPeek.

2021 Valley View (G3)

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