Inspector Lynley tops the Grade III Kent Stakes

Stuart Janney and Phipps Stable’s Inspector Lynley tops the Grade III Kent Stakes at Delaware Park this Saturday.  The mile and an eighth turf affair for 3-year-olds has attracted a field of eight.

The Kentucky-bred trained by Claude McGaughey III has a career record of a win and three seconds from seven starts with earnings of $74,,884. In his most recent outing, Inspector Lynley finished second beaten a length in a one mile turf allowance at Belmont Park on June 3.  Previously, the son of Lemon Drop Kid finished sixth in a mile and a sixteenth turf allowance at Belmont Park on May 12.  On April 8, he finished third in the mile and a sixteenth Grade III Transylvania Stakes at Keeneland.

Brereton Jones’ locally-based He’ll Pay will defend the home field.  In his most recent, the son of Haynesfield finished fourth after a troubled trip, in the mile and a sixteenth $50,000 Stanton Stakes at Delaware Park on June 22.  Previously, the Kentucky-bred trained by J. Larry Jones finished fifth in the JW Murphy Stakes at Pimlico May 21.  On April 2, he won the mile and a sixteenth $100,000 Rushaway Stakes at Turfway Park on April 2.  He has a career record of two wins, a second and third from ten starts with earnings of $102,749.

“He is doing good,” said trainer J. Larry Jones.  “We may have not the best trip in the Stanton; he was parked behind horses for a long time, so he never really got a shot to make his best run.  We are just hoping we can avoid that situation in the Kent. “

$200,000 Kent Stakes

For  3-year-olds

at a mile and an eighth (Turf)

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Source: Delaware Park