By Ray Cotolo, for The Red Mile
LEXINGTON,
KY— With 12 dropping in the entry box Thursday morning, the draw for the
$450,000 Kentucky Futurity Final was conducted during the Thursday (Oct. 3)
card at The Red Mile.
Off
a 1:49.4 mile under wraps in his Bluegrass division, Greenshoe fronts the field
of 12. The Father Patrick colt recently surpassed $1 million in earnings for
owners Courant Inc., Hans Backe, Lars Granqvist and Morten Langli. He leads a
Melander triage into the 127th renewal of the trotting triple crown
classic with stablemates Gimpanzee and Green Manalishi S also entering.
The
draw for the 54th Kentucky Filly Futurity was also conducted. A
total of 11 fillies dropped into the box with Hambletonian Oaks winner When
Dovescry back to rematch Millies Posession.
Below
are the fields for the Kentucky Futurity and the Filly Futurity:
Race 8 | $450,000 127th Kentucky Futurity
Post-Name-Trainer
1-Chin
Chin Hall-Richard “Nifty” Norman
2-Marseille-Ake
Svanstedt-Ake Svanstedt
3-Super
Schissel-Per Engblom
4-Greenshoe-Marcus
Melander
5-Don’t
Let’em-Nancy Johansson
6-Gimpanzee-Marcus
Melander
7-Mass
Fortune K-Norm Parker
8-Green
Manalishi S-Marcus Melander
9-Pilot
Discretion-Tony Alagna
10-Soul
Strong-Ake Svanstedt
11-Goes
Down Smooth-Ron Burke
12-Union
Forces-Julie Miller
Race 6 | $267,000 54th Kentucky Filly
Futurity
Post-Name-Trainer
1-Weslynn
Quest-Christopher Beaver
2-The
Ice Dutchess-Nancy Johansson
3-Millies
Posession-Jim Campbell
4-When
Dovescry-Rene Allard
5-Starita-Joe
Holloway
6-Seaside
Bliss-Paul Kelley
7-Miss
Trixton-Marcus Melander
8-Princess
Deo-Lucas Wallin
9-Beautiful
Sin-Ake Svanstedt
10-Golden
Tricks-Ake Svanstedt
11-Asiago-Per
Engblom
An
eight-race card caps the Grand Circuit fortnight at The Red Mile and also
features the Tattersalls Pace and the mare divisions of the Allerage Farms. The
closing-day card gets underway with first-race post at 1:00 p.m. (EDT).
