Lady Yeats Tops Mrs. Ogden Phipps

A highly competitive field of 10 fillies and mares will compete in Thursday's $75,000 Mrs. Ogden Phipps over 21/16-miles featuring eight hurdlers in the opener of the 10-race card.

Topping the handicap at 155 pounds is Jacqueline Ohrstrom's Lady Yeats, a winner of an open novices allowance hurdle at Catterick in England on New Year's Day. Trainer Richard Valentine named Willie McCarthy to ride as Lady Yeats will depart from post 3.

Trainer Ricky Hendriks will saddle Dino Mite, a 2015 import who is looking for her first victory in the United States. She finished second in an open Ratings Handicap at the Radnor Hunt Races in suburban Philadelphia on May 21. Sean McDermott will ride from post 2.

Michael Moran's Ivy Mills, last year's female champion over fences, began the year with a third-place finish in the Iroquois Steeplechase's Margaret Currey Henley on May 14 and finished seventh in a Suffolk Downs Ratings Handicap on July 9. Trainer Jack Fisher named Connor Hankin to ride the 6-year-old Broken Vow mare.

Barbara's Smile will be looking to repeat her victory in a Parx Racing allowance hurdle on July 12. Owned by Michael A. Smith and trained by Julie Gomena, the 5-year-old Curlin mare will be ridden by Mark Watts out of post 8.

Sarah Joyce, who won a maiden hurdle in Ireland in May, drew post 6. Owned by the Fields Stable, the Elizabeth Voss-trained Sarah Joyce will be ridden by jockey Jack Doyle.

Completing the field is Give Us A Reason, who will leave from the rail under jockey Paddy Young; Dino Mite, the Radnor Ratings Handicap runner-up out of post 2; Lady Yeats, who will be making her American debut from post 3; Willow Ufrom post 5; So Far Away, the third-place finisher in the Carolina Cup for maiden female hurdlers, will exit post 7; Secret Reward, who won her 2016 debut in maiden hurdle for fillies and mares at Foxfield Spring in Virginia, will depart post 9; and Get Ready Set Goes, the High Hope open-maiden hurdles winner, who drew the outside.