Judy the Beauty Faces Seven Foes in Humana Distaff
Wesley Ward’s champion female sprinter of 2014, Judy the Beauty, will face seven rivals when she makes her 2015 debut in the 29th running of the $300,000 Humana Distaff (GI).
The Humana Distaff will go as the seventh race with a 2:08 p.m. post time.
A winner of four of five starts last year highlighted by a victory in the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (GI), Judy the Beauty will seek to make amends for a fourth-place finish in this race last year. It marks her only off-the-board finish in 18 career starts.
Mike Smith, who has been aboard in her past two starts, has the call Saturday and will break from post position eight.
Chief competition figures to come from the Treadway Racing Stable’s Sweet Reason. Trained by Leah Gyarmati, Sweet Reason is a three-time Grade I winner and will be making her first start since finishing to Judy the Beauty at the Breeders’ Cup. Irad Ortiz Jr., has the mount and will break from post position one.
Other top contenders include the 2-3 finishers from the Inside Information (GII) at Gulfstream Park: You Bought Her and Sweet Whiskey and Madison (GI) winner Princess Violet.
The field for the Humana Distaff with jockeys and weights from the inside out is: Sweet Reason (Ortiz Jr., 118), Thank You Marylou (Joel Rosario, 118), Dame Dorothy (Javier Castellano, 120), Clearly Confused (Julien Leparoux, 118), You Bought Her (Corey Lanerie, 118), Moonlit Stroll (Brian Hernandez Jr., 118), Sweet Whiskey (John Velazquez, 118) and Judy the Beauty (Smith, 123).
Source: Churchill Downs