Ralis Heads Pat Day Mile
Reddam Racing’s Ralis, winner of the Hopeful (GI) last September and most recently serving as the workmate for Kentucky Derby favorite Nyquist, heads an evenly matched field of 14 3-year-olds for the 92nd running of the $250,000 Pat Day Mile (GIII).
The Pat Day Mile will go as the 10th race with a 4:25 p.m. post time.
Trained by Doug O’Neill, Ralis enters Saturday’s race off a fifth-place finish in the Spiral (GIII) at Turfway in which he was beaten less than a length. Mario Gutierrez has the mount on Ralis and will break from post position two.
Four horses who were on the Kentucky Derby trail also are in the field: Jacks or Better Farm’s Fellowship, the third-place finisher in the Florida Derby (GI); Xpress Thoroughbreds’ Discreetness, winner of the Smarty Jones at Oaklawn; Brittlyn Stable’s Forevamo, runner-up in the Risen Star (GII) at Fair Grounds and Calumet Farm’s Star Hill, who was third in the Tampa Bay Derby (GII).
The field for the Pat Day Mile, with riders and weights from the inside, is: Discreetness (Jon Court, 120 pounds), Ralis (Gutierrez, 118), Torrontes (Sophie Doyle, 118), Gray Sky (Channing Hill, 118), Imperial Hint (Antonio Gallardo, 118), Sharp Azteca (Edgard Zayas, 118), Forevamo (Florent Geroux, 118), American Dubai (Francisco Torres, 118), Fellowship (Jose Lezcano, 118), Cocked and Loaded (Irad Ortiz Jr., 118), American Freedom (Javier Castellano, 118), Unbridled Outlaw (Victor Espinoza, 118), Star Hill (Corey Lanerie, 118) and Lookin for a Kiss (Paco Lopez, 118).
Source: Churchill Downs