Bell’s The One Denies Serengeti Empress in Derby City Distaff

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In a race that did not deserve a loser, Lothenbach Stables’ BELL’S THE ONE (f, 4, Majesticperfection–Street Mate, by Street Cry {Ire}) took advantage of the ultimate race flow for her one-run style and dropped her nose down on the wire ahead of a desperately unlucky 2019 GI Kentucky Oaks winner Serengeti Empress (Alternation) to win the GI Derby City Distaff S. at Churchill Downs. Taken back off the pace, as is her custom, Bell’s The One laid fifth as Serengeti Empress, last-out winner of the GI Ballerina S. at Saratoga, dueled on a scorching pace inside of Bellafina (Quality Road) through a sub :22-second opening quarter. The tough-as-teak Serengeti Empress swatted away her pace pressure despite cutting the half-mile in :43 3/5 and she turned for home in front. Corey Lanerie began to get after Bell’s The One at the quarter pole and she came with her patented late run, looking as if she might blow right by the front-runner. Serengeti Empress dug in with dogged determination, but ultimately just failed to hold the late lunge of Bell’s The One. It was a first career Grade I winner for lifelong horseman Neil Pessin. O-Lothenbach Stables Inc; B-Bret Jones (KY); T-Neil Pessin.

Saturday, Churchill Downs
DERBY CITY DISTAFF S. PRESENTED BY DERBY CITY GAMING-GI, $500,000, Churchill Downs, 9-5, 4yo/up, f/m, 7f, 1:21.07, ft.
1–BELL’S THE ONE, 120, f, 4, by Majesticperfection
1st Dam: Street Mate, by Street Cry (Ire)
 2nd Dam: Day Mate, by Dayjur
 3rd Dam: Possible Mate, by King’s Bishop

   1ST GRADE I WIN. ($155,000 Ylg ’17 FTKJUL). O-Lothenbach
Stables, Inc. (Bob Lothenbach); B-Bret Jones (KY); T-Neil L.
Pessin; J-Corey J. Lanerie. $303,800. Lifetime Record: 14-7-2-1,
$790,040. Werk Nick Rating: A++. Click for the
   eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Serengeti Empress, 123, f, 4, by Alternation
                1st Dam: Havisham, by Bernardini
                2nd Dam: Love Dancing (Arg), by Salt Lake
                3rd Dam: Le Midi (Arg), by Fitzcarraldo (Arg)
($25,000 Wlg ’16 KEENOV; $70,000 Ylg ’17 KEESEP). O-Joel
Politi; B-Tri Eques Bloodstock, LLC (KY); T-Thomas M. Amoss.
$98,000.
3–Sally’s Curlin, 120, f, 4, by Curlin
                1st Dam: Cabo Queen, by More Than Ready
                2nd Dam: First Quarter, by Sky Classic
                3rd Dam: First Class Gal, by Geiger Counter
($160,000 Ylg ’17 KEESEP). O-CJ Thoroughbreds, Left Turn
Racing LLC and Casner Racing, LP; B-Stonestreet Thoroughbred
Holdings LLC (KY); T-Dale L. Romans. $49,000.
Margins: NO, 3, HF. Odds: 4.20, 1.80, 9.60.
Also Ran: Ce Ce, Wildwood’s Beauty, Bellafina, Shesomajestic. Scratched: Crazy Sexy Munny, Lady Kate, Mia Mischief. Click for the Equibase.com chart, the TJCIS.com PPs or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.

 

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