Tepin Tries for Distaff Turf Mile Repeat
Robert Masterson’s Tepin, who kick-started her 2015 Eclipse Award-winning campaign with a wire-to-wire victory on Derby Day, tops a field of nine fillies and mares entered for the 31st running of the Churchill Distaff Turf Mile (GII).
The Churchill Distaff Turf Mile will go as the sixth race with a 1:13 p.m. post time.
Trained by Mark Casse, Tepin has won eight of her past 10 starts and five in a row. Among her victories are Grade I scores in the First Lady at Keeneland and the Breeders’ Cup Mile over males at Keeneland, as well as a five-length triumph in her most recent start in the Jenny Wiley at Keeneland.
Julien Leparoux will ride Tepin, who will try to join Foresta in 1990-91 as the only repeat winner of the race. Tepin will break from post position one.
Chief among Tepin’s rivals is Siena Farm’s Isabella Sings.
Trained by Todd Pletcher, Isabella Sings led by as many as 18 lengths in her first meeting with Tepin before being caught late in the Hillsborough (GII) at 1 1/8 miles at Tampa Bay Downs.
John Velazquez has the mount on Isabella Sings and will break from post position four.
The field for the Churchill Distaff Turf Mile, with riders and weights from the inside, is: Tepin (Leparoux, 123 pounds), Josdesanimaux (Jose Lezcano, 118), Cash Control (Shaun Bridgmohan, 118), Isabella Sings (Velazquez, 120), Bureau de Change (Joel Rosario, 118), Ticking Katie (IRE) (Luis Saez, 118), She’s Not Here (Mike Smith, 118), Zipessa (Florent Geroux, 118) and Rainha Da Bateria (Javier Castellano, 118).
Source: Churchill Downs