Tepin Set for First Lady

Sunday, October 2, 2016 | 3:39 pm

TEPINThe Coolmore Jenny Wiley Gr I - 28th RunningKeeneland Race Course Lexington, KentuckyApril 16, 2016 Race #10Purse $350,0001-1/16 Miles-Turf , OwnerMark E. Casse, TrainerJulien Leparoux, JockeyItsonlyactingdad (2nd)Illuminant (3rd)$2.80 $2.40 $2.10Order of Finish - 8, 6, 7, 3Please Give Photo Credit To: / Coady Photography

Robert Masterson's Tepin (Bernstein) returned to her home base at Churchill Downs Sunday morning after summering at Saratoga and is in line to make her next start in Saturday's GI First Lady S. at Keeneland.

“She got here [Sunday] morning and she'll go out to the track [Monday] and just jog,” said Mark Casse's son and assistant trainer Norman Casse. “It's all systems go for the First Lady.”

Tepin started her current eight-race win streak in last year's First Lady before going on to best the boys in the GI Breeders' Cup Mile. She travelled to Royal Ascot to annex the G1 Queen Anne S. in June and is coming off a determined half-length victory in the Sept. 17 GI Woodbine Mile.

“I was really surprised; when she came back from Woodbine I thought the she would be more tired,” Casse said. “She was really tired after the race, she had to ship back to Saratoga and I thought that it would knock her out. As soon as she came back to the racetrack three days later, she was better after the Woodbine Mile than she was going in. She seems happy to be back at her home at Churchill so she should move forward from Woodbine.”