No Standouts in Wide Open Boiling Springs

Turf fillies will hold the spotlight at Monmouth Saturday as the $150,000 Boiling Springs Stakes (G3) brings together an eclectic field of locals and foreign-raced 3-year-olds.

Making their North American debuts in the mile and a sixteenth Boiling Springs will be Bjorn Nielsen’s Pontenuovo and Three Chimney’s Racing’s Janicellaine.

Patrick Biancone, who is stabled at Monmouth, will send out Pontenuovo, a French-bred filly whose last race was in England in April. The daughter of Green Tune has been training at Monmouth the past three weeks.

The 3-year-old comes to America as a Group 3 winner, having won the Prix de Cabourg Turkey Jockey Club in France last year.  Jockey Joe Bravo will be aboard Saturday as the pair breaks from post six.

Roger Attfield trains Janicellaine, an Irish-bred miss who broke her maiden in England last year and most recently finished a close third in a handicap at Nottingham. 

Hall of Fame rider Edgar Prado will ship down from his Belmont Park-base to ride the lightly-raced filly.

Saturday’s Boiling Springs also brings together the first, second, fourth and sixth-place finishers from the May 29 Little Silver Stakes at Monmouth.

Kentucky Derby winning connections of owner Team Valor International and trainer H. Graham Motion send out Summer Soiree in the Boiling Springs.  Most recently, the 3-year-old daughter of War Front was seen setting the pace in the Kentucky Oaks (G1) before giving way in the stretch.

My Sunshine Gal, a starter-allowance winner last out at Belmont; Hessonite, a New York-bred stakes winner last out; and speedy Delaware shipper War Prospector complete the field.

Coco Ecolo and R Gypsy Gold are entered for main track only.