Returnees Match Up in Rancho Bernardo

Photo: Eclipse Sportswire

Judy the Beauty, making her first start since May, and Reneesgotzip, away since November, are the top choices in a field of six for Sunday’s $150,000 Grade III Rancho Bernardo Handicap.

Owned and trained by Wesley Ward, Judy the Beauty won the Grade I Madison at Keeneland in April, and was fourth in the Grade I Humana Distaff on Kentucky Derby Day, May 3, at Churchill Downs in her last start. Judy the Beauty is 7-5 on oddsmaker Russ Hudak’s opening line.

Defending race champion Reneesgotzip (8-5) has been sidelined since a runner-up effort in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint on November 2 at Santa Anita, but has been showing  exceptional speed again in workouts.

The field, from the rail out: Judy the Beauty (Mike Smith, 7-5), Fashion Plate (Rafael Bejarano, 4-1), Reneesgotzip  (Corey Nakatani, 8-5), Sagebrush Queen (Edwin Maldonado, 15-1), Amaranth (Dennis Carr, 10-1) and Madame Cactus (Joe Talamo, 10-1).

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