Speech Loud and Clear in Ashland

[Wandering Eyes]

SPEECH (f, 3, Mr Speaker–Scribbling Sarah, by Freud), runner-up four times in a row this year including in her last pair behind the two best 3-year-old fillies in the country, got her moment in the sun Saturday at Keeneland with a convincing victory in the GI Central Bank Ashland S. A dominant nine-length victress second out last December at Los Alamitos, the bay was second in a Santa Anita optional claimer anf dilled the same slot behind Donna Veloce (Uncle Mo) in the GIII Santa Ysabel S. Battling subsequent devastating GI Acorn S. heroine Gamine (Into Mischief) to within a neck in an Oaklawn optional claimer May 2, she completed the exacta once more behind Swiss Skydiver (Daredevil) last out in the GII Santa Anita Oaks June 6. Drifting up to 4-1 here, double her morning-line quote, Speech came away well from her outside draw and set up shop in second, stalking the speed of odds-on Venetian Harbor (Munnings) through fractions of :24.04 and :47.14. Driven midway around the far turn and getting closer past three-quarters in 1:10.44, Speech drew alongside the chalk approaching the eighth pole, took over soon thereafter and kicked clear to a three-length success in 1:41.26. Sales History: $65,000 Ylg ’18 OBSJAN; $95,000 RNA ’18 FTKJUL; $190,000 2yo ’19 OBSMAR. Lifetime Record: 7-2-5-1, $353,840. O-Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners & Madaket Stables; B-Gail Rice (FL); T-Michael McCarthy.

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