Take Charge Indy’s Montalcino Earns ‘Rising Star’ Badge at Second Asking at Keeneland

[Wandering Eyes]

Montalcino (c, 3, Take Charge Indy–Upstager, by Distorted Humor), a big-figure debut winner at Saratoga Sept. 1, backed up that effort with a 'TDN Rising Star' performance in a first-level allowance on the opening day of the Keeneland meeting Friday.

Favored at even-money, the $410,000 OBS April breezer was hustled to the front from his inside draw and traveled nicely beneath Jose Ortiz while pressed through an opening quarter in :21.61. He began to give them the slip entering the far turn and reported home as a much-the-best winner while stopping the timer for seven furlongs in a very sharp 1:21.56.

Montalcino is the second 'Rising Star' for Take Charge Indy, who returned to WinStar Farm in 2020 after spending three years in Korea.

Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0.

O-Twin Brook Stables, Runnels Racing and Henley Farms Inc.; B-Henley Farms Inc. (KY); T-Cherie DeVaux.

(2) Montalcino a convincing winner of race 6 under @jose93_ortiz. (9) Banned For Life and (8) Hold My Bourbon follow. pic.twitter.com/pwSQsAITIS

— Keeneland Racing (@keenelandracing) October 4, 2024

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