Unbeaten Oscar Performance Filly ‘Ready’ Off the Bench

[Wandering Eyes]

Ashbrook Farm and Upland Flats Racing's RED CARPET READY (f, 3, Oscar Performance–Wild Silk, by Street Sense) picked up right where she left off Saturday, dominating Gulfstream's GIII Forward Gal S. to stay unbeaten and earn eight GI Kentucky Oaks qualifying points. Belying almost 37-1 odds when she romped in the Churchill slop first out Oct. 30, the dark bay handled the next step with aplomb, taking the Nov. 26 Fern Creek S. by daylight over a next-out allowance winner back under the Twin Spires. Off as the narrow second choice at 2-1 behind multiple local stakes winner Atomically (Girvin)–last seen finishing seventh in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies–Red Carpet Ready broke on top but was reined in by Luis Saez to stalk in a close-up third. She mounted her three-deep challenge and took over rapidly into a :45.98 half, but had Chad Brown-trained debut romper Undervalued Asset (Speightstown) breathing down her neck as they straightened for home. Red Carpet Ready slammed the door on her pursuer as soon as Saez asked her for more, and she strode out nicely there to prevail by 2 1/2 lengths in 1:23.54. Undervalued Asset held off Atomically for second. Red Carpet Ready was bought back for $100,000 at last year's OBS April sale after breezing in :10 1/5. Sales history: $180,000 ylg '21 FTSAUG; $100,000 RNA 2yo '22 OBSAPR.
O-Ashbrook Farm & Upland Flats Racing. B-Lynn B. Schiff (Ky). T-George R. Arnold II.

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