Midshipman’s Princess Warrior Causes the Upset in Mrs. Revere

[Wandering Eyes]

Exiting a better-than-it-looked fourth to Rushing Fall (More Than Ready) in the GI Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup at Keeneland Oct. 13, PRINCESS WARRIOR (f, 3, Midshipman–Sessa, by Consolidator) took flight with a wide run around the far turn and kept finding in the lane to post an upset in Friday’s GII Mrs. Revere S. at overlaid 11-1. Seventh, but not far from the front passing under the wire for the first time, the $60,000 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-year-old was guided into the clear from midfield as Cool Beans (Candy Ride {Arg}) took them along over the yielding going. Brian Hernandez Jr. let it out a notch with about three furlongs to race, and Princess Warrior loomed boldly four deep into the lane. Cool Beans cut the corner and was plugging on gamely, but she could not resist the run from Princess Warrior, who seized command with a little less than an eighth of a mile to run and held sway late. Get Explicit (Get Stormy) rallied to cut the winning margin down to a length on the wire. Winning trainer Ken McPeek told Churchill’s Joe Kristufek that connections were hoping for an invitation to the GI American Oaks at the end of December, a race won in 2017 by the McPeek-trained and now-retired Daddys Lil Darling (Scat Daddy). O-Evan, Matthew & Drew Trommer; B-George M Veloudis (KY); T-Ken McPeek.

 

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