Nickname the Filly to Beat in Beaumont

LNJ Foxwoods’ Nickname, winner of last fall’s Frizette (G1) at Belmont Park, looms as the filly to beat Sunday when she goes postward in the 31st running of the $150,000 Adena Springs Beaumont (G3).

The Adena Springs Beaumont, run over the Beard Course of seven furlongs, 184 feet, is the eighth race on Sunday’s nine-race program with a 4:57 p.m. ET post time. First post Sunday is 1:05 p.m.

The Adena Springs Beaumont serves as the final race on the Road to the Kentucky Oaks, offering 17 total points on a 10-4-2-1 scale to the first- through fourth-place finishers.

The $1 million Kentucky Oaks (G1) is limited to the top 14 points earners entered. The current cut line is 36 points and holding that 14th spot is Nickname.

Trained by Steve Asmussen, Nickname will be cutting back to a sprint distance for the first time since breaking her maiden at Saratoga in September. Following her Frizette victory, Nickname finished fourth in the 14 Hands Winery Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) here last fall.

In two starts this year, Nickname has finished second in the Martha Washington and Honeybee (G3), both at Oaklawn Park.

Javier Castellano has the mount Sunday and will break from post position five.

One other filly with Oaks points is in the field: R Girls a Charmer (5).

Gary Barber’s R Girls a Charmer earned her Oaks points with a fourth-place finish in the Davona Dale (G2) at Gulfstream. Prior to that, she had won the Gasparilla Stakes going seven furlongs at Tampa Bay Downs.

Trained by Mark Casse, R Girls a Charmer will break from post position two and be ridden by Luis Saez.

The field for the Adena Springs Beaumont, from the rail out with riders and weights, is: Lightstream (Julien Leparoux, 118 pounds), R Girls a Charmer (Saez, 118), Kinsley Kisses (John Velazquez, 118), American Doll (Florent Geroux, 118) and Nickname (Castellano, 123).