Lotsa Lemon In the Selene

A pair of fillies by Lane’s End stalwart Lemon Drop Kid look to lead the market for Sunday’s GIII Selene S. at Woodbine. Pin Oak Stable’s Don’t Leave Me is batting .750 coming into her second start of the season, including a perfect two-from-two mark over Polytrack. The narrow winner of her rained-off six-furlong debut last August, she annexed a seven-furlong allowance over the turf in her next appearance, but was a disappointing sixth to Conquest Harlanate (Harlan’s Holiday) in the GII Natalma S. to close an abbreviated freshman campaign. The gray, a daughter of See How She Runs (Maria’s Mon)–winner of the 2002 Selene when it was a Grade I–made the most of her 3-year-old bow when swooping seven wide into the lane before finding the line 3/4 of a length best in the GIII Bourbonette Oaks at Turfway Park Mar. 21. 

Where as Don’t Leave Me has experience over the synthetic surface, Woodford Racing’s Season Ticket will be making her first appearance on the track–on raceday, in any event. The Ontario-bred has made each of her four starts on the turf, winning her maiden going a mile at Gulfstream Jan. 4 before finishing unplaced in two subsequent runs, including a 10th in the GIII Florida Oaks. She regrouped in a first-level allowance going 9 1/2 furlongs at Keeneland Apr. 24, coming from next to last in that field of eight to be a strong second. She figures to take her fair share of money, though her two local breezes would appear to leave something to be desired. 

The latter’s stablemate Ol’ Fashion Gal (Sky Mesa) will also be stepping onto the Polytrack for the first time, but in contrast to Season Ticket, her morning trials appear more promising. Winner on short rest of the 2014 GIII Jimmy Durante S.–the former Miesque S.–at Del Mar last November, the chestnut has been well-beaten in a couple of starts this term, including a latest ninth in the Apr. 4 GIII Providencia S. on the grass at Santa Anita.