Senior Investment Steals Lexington Victory at Wire
Fern Circle Stables’ Senior Investment nailed West Coast at the wire to win the 36th running of the $200,000 Stonestreet Lexington (G3) for three-year-olds by a head. Senior Investment rallied from far back to catch West Coast and notch his first graded-stakes victory.
Trained by Kenny McPeek and ridden by Channing Hill, Senior Investment covered the 1 1/16 miles on a fast main track in 1:45.05. It was the first victory in the race for both McPeek and Hill.
Resiliency set the pace and led the field of 10 through fractions of :24.16 and :47.71 as Senior Investment raced in eighth.
On the far turn, Time to Travel moved to the lead only to have West Coast quickly pounce and take over the lead at the head of the stretch. West Coast opened a daylight margin until Senior Investment arrived on the scene late to prevail in a three-horse photo with No Dozing finishing another neck back in third.
The victory was worth $120,000 and increased Senior Investment’s earnings to $207,080 with a record of 8-3-0-1. A Keeneland sales graduate, Senior Investment is a Kentucky-bred son of Discreetly Mine out of the Deputy Commander mare Plaid.
Senior Investment returned $24.20, $8.20 and $4.20. West Coast, ridden by Flavien Prat, returned $3.80 and $2.60 with favored No Dozing returning $2.40 to show under Joel Rosario.
Time to Travel finished another 3¼ lengths back in fourth and was followed in order by Lookin At Blessing, Convict Pike, Souper Tapit, He’s Munnie, Capt. Grider and Resiliency.
Source: Keeneland