Goodnight Olive Rewards Favorite Backers in Filly & Mare Sprint

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Breeders' Cup Saturday was off to a good start for chalk players, as GOODNIGHT OLIVE (f, 4, Ghostzapper–Salty Strike, by Smart Strike) had a few anxious moments when in tight quarters for a few strides, but she launched her bid three wide into the Keeneland stretch and drew clear as much the best in the GI Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint as the 9-5 favorite. Away sharply from a middle gate, the $170,000 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July yearling purchase raced in the second flight of horses as the rail-drawn Slammed (Marking) argued the early pace inside of 2021 runner-up Edgeway (Competitive Edge) through a solid opening quarter of :22.10. Taken hold of so as not to run up on the heels of Lady Rocket (Tale of the Cat) as they hit the turn, Goodnight Olive still traveled well and was given her cue at the five-sixteenths, as the outposted 'TDN Rising Star' Echo Zulu (Gun Runner) was launching a simultaneous bid. Goodnight Olive was kicked into the lead outside of a tiring Edgeway with a bit more than a furlong and a half to travel and was not in danger from there, as last year's GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies heroine closed gamely for second. Wicked Halo (Gun Runner) carved out an inside trip from her high draw and boxed on well to complete the trifecta. Goodnight Olive is the second Breeders' Cup winner for Ghostzapper, whose daughter Judy the Beauty won this event in 2014. It was a second F/M Sprint for Chad Brown, having saddled Wavell Avenue (Harlington) to an upset when Keeneland hosted the Breeders' Cup for the first time in 2015.

Saturday, Keeneland
BREEDERS' CUP FILLY AND MARE SPRINT-GI, $920,000, Keeneland, 11-5, 3yo/up, f/m, 7f, 1:21.61, ft.
1–GOODNIGHT OLIVE, 124, f, 4, by Ghostzapper
                1st Dam: Salty Strike (MGSW, $485,266), by Smart Strike
                2nd Dam: Lake Huron, by Salt Lake
                3rd Dam: My Rainbow, by Lyphard
($170,000 Ylg '19 FTKOCT). O-First Row Partners & Team
Hanley; B-Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings LLC (KY); T-Chad
Brown; J-Irad Ortiz, Jr. $520,000. Lifetime Record: 7-6-1-0,
$1,019,950. Werk Nick Rating: A.
Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Click for the
free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
2–Echo Zulu, 122, f, 3, by Gun Runner
                1st Dam: Letgomyecho (GSW, $136,200), by Menifee
                2nd Dam: Echo Echo Echo, by Eastern Echo
                3rd Dam: Kashie West, by Sir Ivor
'TDN Rising Star'. ($300,000 Ylg '20 KEESEP). O-L & N Racing
LLC & Winchell Thoroughbreds LLC; B-Betz/J.
Betz/Burns/CHNNHK/Magers/CoCo Equine/Ramsby (KY);
T-Steven M. Asmussen. $170,000.
3–Wicked Halo, 122, f, 3, by Gun Runner
                1st Dam: Just Wicked (GSW, $208,460), by Tapit
                2nd Dam: Wicked Deed, by Harlan's Holiday
                3rd Dam: Marfa's Squall, by Marfa
1ST G1 BLACK TYPE. O/B-Winchell Thoroughbreds LLC (KY);
T-Steven M. Asmussen. $90,000.
Margins: 2HF, 1, 1HF. Odds: 1.85, 3.63, 14.40.
Also Ran: Ce Ce, Obligatory, Chi Town Lady, Edgeway, Lady Rocket, Sterling Silver, Chain of Love (Jpn), Frank's Rockette, Slammed. Scratched: Hot Peppers.
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