Radio Days Heads Field of Seven for Beaumont presented by Keeneland Select

Joseph Allen’s Radio Days, runner-up in the Forward Gal (G3) at Gulfstream Park in February headlines a compact field of seven 3-year-old fillies entered Thursday for Sunday’s 37^th running of the $400,000 Beaumont (G3) Presented by Keeneland Select to be run over the Beard Course of 7 furlongs, 184 feet. 

The Beaumont serves as the final stop on the Road to the Kentucky Oaks (G1) with 17 points up for grabs on a 10-4-2-1 scale for the first- through fourth-place finishers. The Kentucky Oaks, to be run May 6 at Churchill Downs, is limited to the top 14 point earners that pass the entry box. None of the Beaumont entrants has any Oaks points. 

The Beaumont will go as the eighth race on Sunday’s nine-race program with a 4:44 p.m. ET post time. First post Sunday is 1 p.m. 

Trained by two-time Beaumont winner Shug McGaughey, Radio Days comes into Sunday’s race off a fourth-place effort in the Busher Invitational (L) at Aqueduct on March 5. Joel Rosario has the mount Sunday and will break from post two. 

The field for the Beaumont, with riders and weights from the rail out, is: Lady Scarlet (Jose Ortiz, 118 pounds), Radio Days (Rosario, 118), Majestic d’Oro (Joe Talamo, 118), Gina Romantica (Irad Ortiz Jr., 118), Reagan’s Decision (Luis Saez, 118), Chi Town Lady(John Velazquez, 118) and Matareya (Flavien Prat, 118).