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Isabella Sings pulled off a huge upset with a front running victory in Churchill's GII Mrs. Revere S. Saturday evening. Dismissed at 27-1 from her 8-1 morning-line quote, the chestnut broke sharply and took up her preferred position at the head of affairs, where she clocked early fractions of :23.50 and :48.07. Maintaining a clear advantage into the lane, she had several late pursuers, but none posed any serious threat as she skipped home to score her first graded stakes victory under Paco Lopez. Fellow longshot Rainha Da Bateria, who went off at 44-1 from a 15-1 morning-line, closed strongly to be second.
“She can be kind of a headstrong filly and Paco was able to kind of coax her along a bit and get her to settle,” winning trainer Todd Pletcher said. “The first quarter was solid, but then they were able to talk her out of it and get a kind second quarter. It looked like it was game on from there. I was hoping she could continue on.”
Lightly raced as a juvenile, Isabella Sings followed a debut win at Belmont last summer with a near miss in Woodbine's GII Natalma S. in September before finishing a non-factor 12th in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf last October. Opening her sophomore account with an optional claimer win at Gulfstream Feb. 26, the chestnut finished second to the reopposing Celestine (Scat Daddy) in that venue's Sanibel Island S. Mar. 29 and was fourth behind that rival in Belmont's Wait a While S. May 16. A well-beaten seventh in an Elmont optional claimer June 12, she captured a division of Monmouth's Little Silver S. July 26 and missed by just a nose in that venue's GIII Boiling Springs S. Sept. 5. The sophomore was last seen finishing fourth behind Partisan Politics (More Than Ready), who was fifth as the 3-1 second-choice in this test, and Devine Aida in Belmont's Pebbles S. Oct. 12.
The winner is a half to fellow Siena Farms homebred and Todd Pletcher trainee Alaura Michele (Arch), who captured a pair of listed stakes and was also graded stakes placed. Their dam produced an unraced juvenile colt named Sport (Hard Spun), a yearling colt by that sire, and weanling colt by Animal Kingdom. She was bred back to Quality Road. Siena Farms also made news in the sales ring this year when their homebred Grade I winner Angela Renee (Bernardini), a full sister to To Honor and Serve, topped the Fasig-Tipton November sale after being hammered down to Don Alberto Corporation for $3 million.
Saturday, Churchill Downs
MRS. REVERE S.-GII, $200,000, CD, 11-14, 3yo, f, 1 1/16mT, 1:44.74, gd.
1–@ISABELLA SINGS, 118, f, 3, by Eskendereya
1st Dam: Isobel Baillie (GB) (SP-Fr), by Lomitas (GB)
2nd Dam: Dubai Soprano (GB), by Zafonic
3rd Dam: Ring of Music (GB), by Sadler's Wells
O/B-Siena Farms LLC (KY); T-Todd A. Pletcher; J-Paco Lopez.
$112,840. Lifetime Record: 11-4-3-0, $303,950. *1/2 to Alaura
Michele (Arch), MSW & GSP, $229,179. Werk Nick Rating: F.
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2–Rainha Da Bateria, 118, f, 3, Broken Vow–Amelia, by
Dixieland Band. ($435,000 Ylg '13 KEESEP). O-Three Chimneys
Farm, LLC; B-Alexander Groves Matz, LLC (KY); T-H. Graham
Motion. $36,400.[bullet ad=”gainesway-consigned-by”][bullet ad=”bridlewood-farm-training-graduate”]
3–Devine Aida, 118, f, 3, Unbridled's Song–Passion, by Came
Home. ($200,000 Ylg '13 KEESEP; $120,000 2yo '14 OBSOPN).
O-Stronach Stables; B-Alpha Delta Stables, LLC (KY);
T-Christophe Clement. $18,200.[bullet ad=”nick-de-meric-consigned-by-de-meric-sales”][bullet ad=”lanes-end-foaledraisedsold”]
Margins: HF, 3 3/4, HF. Odds: 27.30, 44.90, 6.20.
Also Ran: Season Ticket, Partisan Politics, Tammy the Torpedo, Bobbi Grace (Ire), Return to Grace, Onus, Celestine, Cara Marie, Robillard, Prado's Sweet Ride, Kathballu. Scratched: Darling Sky, Urtheoneeyelove, America Mon Amie, Wiener Valkyrie (GB).
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