For Immediate Release
Shisospicy (Mitole – Mischief Galore, by Into Mischief) led the slate of stakes-winning OBS graduates this past weekend when she earned her second straight stakes victory and first graded score with a dominant 4 ¼-length win in the $224,625 Mamzelle Stakes (G3) for 3-year-old fillies at Churchill Downs May 10.
Ridden by Jose Ortiz and trained by Jose D’Angelo, Shisospicy clocked 5 ½ furlongs on firm turf in a stakes record time of 1:01.46 for Josh Mendez’s Morplay Racing LLC. The victory was worth $129,820 and increased Shisospicy’s earnings to $415,370 with a record of 6-4-1-1. She is unbeaten in three starts on grass.
(Churchill/Coady Media/Renee Torbit photo)
“Our goal is always to have fun and this was a lot of fun,” said Rich Mendez, the founder of Morplay Racing, to the Churchill Downs publicity team. “We knew after the Limestone (Stakes at Keeneland) we had a lot of confidence with her moving forward. She’s run so well in all of her starts.”
Shisospicy was offered at the 2024 OBS April sale by Hartley/DeRenzo where she was an RNA after breezing in :9 3/5.
At Gulfstream Park, Lennilu (Leinster – Lulu’s Pom Pom, by Pomeroy), owned by Amy Dunne, Caitlin Dunne, Brenda Miley, Jean Wilkinson, Hoffman Family Racing, Tranquility Lake Farm, Maury Harrington and Christopher Harrington, punched her ticket to Royal Ascot when she romped to a 3 ¾ length victory in the $100,000 Royal Palm Juvenile Fillies.
The Royal Palm Juvenile Fillies winner earned an automatic berth in one of six juvenile stakes during the prestigious Royal Ascot meeting in mid-June, plus a $25,000 travel stipend.
“The plan is Royal Ascot as long as she is healthy and everything goes right,” winning trainer Patrick Biancone said to the Gulfstream Park publicity team.
Lennilu was purchased by Glencrest Farm for $23,000 from the Abbie Road Farm consignment at the 2024 OBS Winter Mixed Sale.
At Monmouth Park on Saturday, Kentucky Outlaw (Outwork – Fend, by Street Sense) gave owner-trainer Felissa Dunn her first career stakes win, rolling to 1 1/2-length victory in the $102,000 Long Branch Stakes – earning a free entry and free start fees to the Grade 1 Haskell Stakes on July 19.
It marked the third win in four career starts for the son of Outwork, who was picked out of the 2024 OBS June Sale from the Kinsman Farm consignment for $12,000 by Felissa’s husband John Dunn after breezing in :10 3/5. The colt previously sold for $10,000 at the 2023 OBS October Yearling Sale to Angel Martinez out of the Whitman Sales consignment.
At Prairie Meadows, Patricia’s Hope LLC and Richard Ravin’s Rich City Girl (City of Light – Hassler (IRE), by War Front) earned her first stakes win when she captured the $50,000 Goldfinch Stakes in her seasonal bow. Trained by Larry Rivelli, the filly was purchased by Patricia’s Hope for $435,000 out of the Top Line Sales consignment at the 2024 OBS March sale after breezing in :9 4/5.