Fern Creek Stakes

Taylor Made's Not This Time, who currently leads all North American-based sires by black-type winners for 2025, further padded that number when Albaugh Family Stables homebred On Time Girl (f, 2, Not This Time--Girl Daddy, by Uncle Mo) captured Churchill's Fern Creek Stakes for juvenile fillies Saturday afternoon, bringing her sire's stakes winner count to 26 for the year. The bay 2-year-old, a 'TDN Rising Star, presented by Hagyard', left the gate sharpest of all, almost immediately putting a length on the field, but Keeneland maiden winner Solemn Vow (Constitution)...

5th-Gulfstream, $72,000, Alw (NW1$X)/Opt. Clm ($75,000), 2-5, 3yo, f, 5fT, :54.82, fm, 2 3/4 lengths. SHISOSPICY (f, 3, Mitole--Mischief Galore, by Into Mischief) earned a 'TDN Rising Star' tag when romping by 16 1/4 lengths in her Gulfstream debut last October. She then picked up black-type while sprinting on the dirt while the beaten favorite in both the Fern Creek Stakes and the Mockingbird Stakes at Oaklawn to kick off her 3-year-old season Jan. 4. Trying the turf for the first time while also cutting back to her shortest distance...

WinStar Farm's 'TDN Rising Star' Impulse Buy (Speightstown) took advantage of wicked fractions for the opening half-mile of Saturday's Fern Creek Stakes at Churchill Downs and raced past her rivals in the final furlong to record a comfortable victory. Off as the 9-4 third betting choice, the homebred was away only fairly from her outside draw and was second last early on as favored 'TDN Rising Star' Shisospicy (Mitole) was pressed through a quarter in 21.70. Impulse Bay made eye-catching progress at the rail leaving the 3 1/2-furlong pole and...

Marissa's Lady took her record to two-for-two with her first black-type score at Churchill Saturday night. Rallying to a narrow score in her career bow over this strip Oct. 31, she was given a 3-1 chance in this event. Stalking from a second through a snappy first quarter in :22.18, the gray charged up to take control turning for home. Matareya confronted her on the fence, but Marissa's Lady found more late, rolling clear to score. Marissa's Lady is the 34th black-type winner for her sire Violence. Her dam produced...