Throughout the stellar profession of Silverbulletday, the filly made her 3-year-old debut on the Honest Grounds in 1999, profitable the Davona Dale Stakes and the Honest Grounds Oaks enroute to a second straight championship season.
Silverbulletday went on to win the Kentucky Oaks (G1) because the 1-10 betting favourite and construct a resume of 15 victories from 23 begins with greater than $3 million in earnings. Though racing simply twice on the Honest Grounds, observe officers in 2011 renamed a race for Silverbulletday.
Silverbulletday Odds: Atropa the 2-1 favourite in a Discipline of Six
On Saturday, the $150,000 Silverbulletday Stakes is a part of a 13-race card on the Honest Grounds, a 1-mile, 70-yard check providing Oaks qualifying factors of 20-10-6-4-2 to the highest 5 finishers.
The sphere of six 3-year-old fillies is led by 2-1 morning-line favourite Atropa, one in all two entries for coach Cherie DeVaux.
The Into Mischief filly makes her 3-year-old debut after going 1-for-2 in 2025, a maiden win by 10 lengths in her second begin, adopted by an in depth second to Bella Ballerina within the Golden Rod Stakes (G2) at Churchill Downs on Nov. 29.
Her closing run within the 1/16th-mile within the Golden Rod might give her an edge in opposition to rivals within the Silverbulletday, race 12, with a submit time of 5:30 p.m. ET.
Coach Kenny McPeek has an unbeaten filly on this one with Taken by the Wind, final seen profitable the Pocahontas Stakes (G3) at Churchill Downs on Sept. 25. The Rock Your World filly, partly owned by NFL Corridor of Famer Terry Bradshaw, is 5-2 leaving from gate 4 underneath Brian Hernandez, Jr.
White Smoke (x-2) provides DeVaux a second entry. The Important High quality filly made her debut a profitable one on Dec. 20, scoring by a size after a driving rally in a 6-furlong dash on the Honest Grounds.
Luv Your Neighbor, skilled by Michael Stidham, is probably the most skilled of the bunch with 5 begins in 2025 – a maiden win at first asking and a pair of seconds, most not too long ago within the 1-mile, 70-yard Untapable Stakes on the Honest Grounds on Dec. 20.
Rounding out the sphere are Pashmina, who ran third within the Untapable, and Dancin in Previous City, 0-for-2 for coach Keith Desormeaux
The Picks: 1 Taken by the Wind, 2 Atropa, 3 White Smoke
The sphere for the $150,0000 Silverbulletday Stakes, from the out, with jockey, coach, odds:
- Atropa (José Ortiz, Cherie DeVaux), 2-1
- Dancin in Previous City (James Graham, Keith Desormeaux), 10-1
- White Smoke (Flavien Prat, Cherie DeVaux), 9-2
- Taken by the Wind (Brian Hernandez, Jr., Kenny McPeek), 5-2
- Luv Your Neighbor (Axel Concepcion, Mike Stidham), 4-1
- Pashmina (Ben Curtis, Rob Atras), 5-1
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