Goodnight Olive makes a winning return to the races in the G1 Madison (JennyPhoto/Past The Wire)
Churchill Downs Press Release
LOUISVILLE, Ky.— First Row Partners and Team Hanley’s champion Goodnight Olive puts her seven-race win streak on the line Saturday when she takes on five rivals in the 37th running of the $750,000 Derby City Distaff (GI) presented by Kendall-Jackson Winery for fillies and mares going seven furlongs on the main track.
The Derby City Distaff, the first of nine stakes races Saturday, will go as the fourth race with a 12:04 p.m. post time.
Trained by Chad Brown, Goodnight Olive closed her 2022 campaign with a victory in the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (GI), a victory that clinched the Eclipse Award as champion female sprinter.
Goodnight Olive made her 2023 debut a winning one in the Madison (GI) on April 8 at Keeneland, also at seven furlongs. Irad Ortiz Jr. has the mount and will break from post two.
The field for the Derby City Distaff, with riders from the rail out, is: Hot and Sultry (Joel Rosario), Goodnight Olive (Ortiz Jr.), Wicked Halo (Tyler Gaffalione), Travel Column (Gerardo Corrales), Matareya (Flavien Prat), My Destiny (Rey Gutierrez). All starters will carry 123 pounds.
