Race 9 at Keeneland | Saturday, April 11 | Post Time 5:16 PM Eastern

Jenny Wiley Stakes – Grade 1 | Purse $650,000 | One Mile and One-Sixteenth on Turf | Fillies and Mares, Four Years Old and Upward

Top Win Contenders: Lush Lips (7), Segesta (10)

Other contenders: Destino d’Oro (8), Dynamic Pricing (5), Expensive Queen (1)

Lush Lips (7) has won three straight graded stakes. She has never finished worse than second in all nine races since she moved to trainer Brandan Walsh. Jockey Tyler Gaffalione has guided her in four of six races and ran second in the other two. One of those was at Keeneland, in the Grade 1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes last October. Her best recent Equibase Speed Figures for her last two have been 112, and only one horse had a higher winning figure, where Destino d’Oro (8) earned a 114 when winning the Grade 1 Pegasus World Cup Filly and Mare Turf Invitational, just one race before her. In a competitive field, Lush Lips is the horse to beat.

However, Segesta (10) has a shot to beat Lush Lips if she improves. This mare finished first or second in eight of 11 races in 2025 and 2024. One of those races was the Grade 1 First Lady Stakes at Keeneland last October, where she was beaten by a neck. She then won the Grade 1 Matriarch Stakes in November and has been off since then. Her best figures earned were 110 and 108. She has been coming back from four months off, but trainer Chad Brown has a strong record of six wins and three seconds in 19 races, coming back from four months to six months in grade 1 stakes, including Beaute Cachee in 2024, who won the Jenny Willy that year, and In Italian in 2023. Jockey Prat Flavien Prat has been aboard Segesta in her last two races. If she runs just a bit faster than Lush Lips, Segesta can win.

The trio of Destino d’Oro (8), Dynamic Pricing (5), and Expensive Queen (1) all have a chance to be in the money, and any could win if either of the top two doesn’t run well. Destino d’Oro (8) won the Grade 1 Pegasus World Cup Filly and Mare Turf Invitational in January, then she won the Grade 2 Hillsborough Stakes in March. Dynamic Pricing (5), also trained by Brown, ran her best race when winning the Grade 1 Just a Game Stakes in June with a 107 figure. In her last race, the First Lady Stakes, where she was the favorite, she finished seventh. She came back from a layoff in May to win the Grade 3 Beaugay Stakes and comes back from another layoff. Irad Ortiz, Jr. gets back on, and he rode her to win the Beaugay. Expensive Queen (1) won three of four U.S. races, but no graded stakes. She won two of her two races this year, including a stakes on February 14, with 101 and 99 figures, so she has room to improve. Walsh also trains her.

Win bets: Lush Lips (7) at odds of 8 to 5 or higher.

Segesta (10) at odds of 5 to 2 or higher.

Exactas:

Box Lush Lips (7) and Segesta

Also, Lush Lips (7), Segesta (10) over Lush Lips (7), Segesta, Destino d’Oro (8), Dynamic Pricing (5), Expensive Queen (1)

Trifecta: Lush Lips (7), Segesta over Lush Lips (7), Segesta over Destino d’Oro (8), Dynamic Pricing (5), Expensive Queen (1)