Lady Eli Works for Appalachian
Sheep Pond Partners’ Lady Eli, winner of the 2014 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1), is scheduled to make her 2015 debut Sunday in the $125,000 Appalachian (G3) Presented by Japan Racing Association. On Monday, the 3-year-old Divine Park filly worked five furlongs on the yielding turf course in 1:04.80. Clockers caught her final quarter-mile in :23.60.
“She looked really good,” trainer Chad Brown said. “She worked fabulous, so she’s ready to go for Sunday.”
Brown said Lady Eli, a Keeneland sales grad, received some time off following the Breeders’ Cup and spent a “quiet winter down in Florida. We gave her some time off. We gradually started to pick up her training at Palm Meadows, and she’s picked it up nicely each week.”
Lady Eli arrived here April 1 to continue preparations for the Appalachian, a one-mile turf race for 3-year-old fillies.
“I liked the timing of it, get her a race over the Keeneland surface,” he said about the race. “Kick off the year here and see how it goes.”
Last year, Brown also won Breeders’ Cup races with Dayatthespa in the Filly and Mare Turf (G1) and Bobby’s Kitten in the Turf Sprint (G1). Dayatthespa has been retired. Brown is expecting Bobby’s Kitten to join his Keeneland string in the coming days after completing a freshening at owner Ken and Sarah Ramsey’s Ramsey Farm near Nicholasville, Ky.
Source: Keeneland Assocaiation