Right to Vote & Rosie Napravnik Win Churchill Feature

Photo: Eclipse Sportswire

Right to Vote, runner-up to Mark Valeski in last year’s Peter Pan (Grade II), rallied in midstretch and then outdueled favored Golden Frontier to win the $51,750 Sunday afternoon feature at Churchill Downs by one length.
 
Trained by Ron Moquett and ridden by Rosie Napravnik, Right to Vote covered the 6 ½ furlongs on the fast main track in 1:16.89.
 
B J D Thoroughbreds LLC’s Right to Vote, most recently ninth in the Alysheba (GII) on Kentucky Oaks Day, is a 4-year-old dark bay or brown son of Political Force. He earned $32,400 for Sunday’s victory and improved his bankroll to $188,804 with a record of 3-2-2 from 10 starts.
 
Right to Vote returned $6.80, $3.60 and $2.80. Golden Frontier, under Greta Kuntzweiler, returned $3.60 and $2.80 with Indisputable under Brian Hernandez Jr. another 1 ¼-lengths back in third and returning $4 to show. 
 
In Sunday’s finale, jockey Joao Moreira scored his first U.S. win aboard 25-1 longshot Princess Millie. Moreira, a native of Brazil and a champion jockey in Brazil and Singapore, will ride 5-2 morning line favorite Judy the Beauty in Monday’s $100,000-added Winning Colors (GIII) for owner-trainer Wesley Ward.
 

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