Connections of the dead-heat winners of Saturday’s Jenny Wiley (G1) — Expensive Queen (IRE) and Segesta — reported the mares were doing fine Sunday morning.
“She’s good this morning,” said Paul Madden, assistant to trainer Brendan Walsh said of Expensive Queen. “I thought we got it.”
Baldo Hernandez, assistant to Chad Brown, thought Segesta got the win initially. “Then I watched the replay twice.”
The victory gave Brown a weekend Grade 1 sweep coming on the heels of Friday’s victory by Zulu Kingdom (IRE) in the Maker’s Mark Mile (G1). Brown now has 53 Keeneland stakes victories, good for second all time.
Hernandez said Segesta likely would head to New York with the $500,000 Just A Game (G1) Presented by Resolute Racing on June 6 at Saratoga as the next likely target.
Finishing three-quarters of a length behind the top two was C R K Stable’s Medoro.
“I think that may have been the best race she has run,” trainer Peter Eurton said Sunday morning. “She got to them in the stretch, but they obviously had something left.”
Eurton said that Medoro is not a big filly and probably would target the $275,000 Old Forester Mint Julep (G3) at Churchill Downs on May 30 as her next start.
Four races before Medoro made her Jenny Wiley start, her 3-year-old half-brother, Provider, finished third in a maiden grass test at Keeneland. On Friday, their 4-year-old half-brother, Unitas, will go in a turf sprint here coming off a maiden win at Fair Grounds.
C R K Stable also owns and Eurton trains Provider and Unitas.