Peter Redekop’s exciting Alliford Bay heads a field of nine 3-year-old fillies nominated to Sunday’s $50,000 Kent Stakes at Emerald Downs.<\/p>\n
At 6½ furlongs, the Kent is the second of four open stakes for sophomore fillies and the last sprint of a series that culminates July 23 with the $75,000 Washington Oaks at 1 1\/8 miles.<\/p>\n
A Kentucky-bred by City Zip, Alliford Bay delivered one of the season’s sharpest efforts to date, rolling to a 3¼-length victory over Risque’s Legacy in the May 7 Seattle Stakes. Her winning time of 1:08.92 translated to a 90 Beyer, which is a rare achievement for a 3-year-old filly in these parts.<\/p>\n
Unbeaten in two starts with earnings of $43,100, Alliford Bay breezed a half-mile in :49 1\/5 Sunday and will be a short price if she runs Sunday.<\/p>\n
Although she was knocked from the unbeaten ranks, Karl Krieg’s Risque’s Legacy turned in a sharp effort while finishing runner-up in the Seattle. Washington’s champion 2-year-old filly of 2016, Risque’s Legacy set fractions of :21.85 and :44.46 before yielding to Alliford Bay, and was 5 ¾ lengths clear of third-place finisher Blazinbeauty.<\/p>\n
Darrin Paul’s Blazinbeauty also ran well in her 2017 season debut while rallying for third, and she figures to improve with more distance. A Kentucky-bred by Tale of Ekati, Blazinbeauty was a stakes winner short and long last year and tops the nominees in earnings with $89,075.<\/p>\n
Where We At’s Daddyalwayssays comes off a promising career debut on May 13, rallying for a three-quarter-lengths victory vs. straight maidens at 5½ furlongs.<\/p>\n
$50,000 Kent Stakes, Sunday, May 28<\/strong><\/p>\n 3-Year-Old Fillies, 6½ Furlongs<\/strong><\/p>\n Horse, owner, trainer<\/strong><\/p>\n Alliford Bay (3-KY) Peter Redekop B.C. Ltd., Blaine Wright<\/p>\n Blazinbeauty (3-KY) Darrin Paul, Frank Lucarelli<\/p>\n Daddyalwayssays (3-KY) Where We At, Kay Cooper<\/p>\n Getting Joellenned (3-KY) George & Jane Todaro or Scott Kruse, Tom Wenzel<\/p>\n Irish Lass (3-KY) Mohamad Khan, Steve Koler<\/p>\n Reginella (3-CAL) Luigi DiPietro or Diana DiPietro, Blaine Wright<\/p>\n Retreat Yourself (3-WA) Mark Malnati, Doris Harwood<\/p>\n Risque’s Legacy (3-WA) Karl Krieg, Tom Wenzel<\/p>\n Sorceress Warning (3-CAL) Craig, Glasgow or Ortiz Sr., Manny Ortiz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Peter Redekop’s exciting Alliford Bay heads a field of nine 3-year-old fillies nominated to Sunday’s $50,000 Kent Stakes at Emerald Downs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-28488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28488"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=28488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}