Got Stormy, Into Mystic looking forward after Franklin County battle

Got Stormy and Into Mystic, who finished noses apart in Friday’s 5½-furlong  Franklin County (G3) at Keeneland, were doing well Saturday morning, according to their connections.

Gary Barber’s Got Stormy, who boosted her earnings to $1,991,378, returned to Churchill Downs at 8:45 last night, said David Carroll, assistant to trainer Mark Casse.

“She’s tired, but she ate up and jogged soundly this morning,” Carroll said. “The plan is to stay (at Churchill) and come back to Keeneland Breeders’ Cup week.”

Got Stormy, runner-up in the Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1) last year at Santa Anita, is under consideration for that race or the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint (G1), both on Nov. 7.

Plans are undetermined for G. Chris Coleman and Brad King’s Into Mystic, who was just caught at the wire by Got Stormy.

“That was a very tough beat,” said trainer Brendan Walsh, who has had Into Mystic for three races. “That was a very good filly that beat her. We got checked a little in the turn, but that’s racing.”

Into Mystic has run twice at 5½ furlongs for Walsh with her other start producing a victory at Ellis Park in the Kentucky Downs Preview Ladies Sprint.

“We know exactly what we have now,” Walsh said. “We’ll see how she comes out of this race and look around for something.”