“The Grizzly” Tops G1 Juddmonte Field

Hernandez has on his game face as Thorpedo Anna (inside) battles Dorth Vader to the wire. (Joe Labozzetta)

Reigning Horse of the Year Headlines $650,000 Juddmonte Spinster on Fall Stars Sunday

Two Breeders’ Cup “Win and You’re In” Races

Keeneland Release

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Hill ‘n’ Dale Equine Holdings, Magdalena Racing, Mark Edwards and Judy Hicks’ Thorpedo Anna, the 2024 Horse of the Year, headlines a field of five entered Tuesday for Sunday’s 70th running of the $650,000 Juddmonte Spinster (G1) for fillies and mares.

Among those lined up to face Thorpedo Anna is D.J. Stable’s 3-year-old Nitrogen, winner of the Alabama (G1) Presented by Keeneland Sales, who will be making her first start against older horses.

The Juddmonte Spinster is one of three stakes on Sunday’s 10-race program that starts at 1 p.m. ET.

In the other two Sunday stakes:

The 35th running of the $400,000 Castle & Key Bourbon (G2) attracted a field of 12 headed by Repole Stable’s Final Score, winner of the With Anticipation (G3) at Saratoga.

The eighth running of the $300,000 Indian Summer (L) Presented by Keeneland Select drew a field of nine headed by Leland Ackerley Racing’s Obliteration, a graded stakes winner on dirt and runner-up in the Kentucky Downs Juvenile Sprint Stakes (L) in his grass debut.

The fields for the three Sunday stakes, with trainers, riders and weights from the rail out, are:

Race 8, 4:44 p.m. — $300,000 Indian Summer (L) Presented by Keeneland Select, 2-year-olds, 5½ furlongs (turf):

Race 9, 5:16 p.m. — $650,000 Juddmonte Spinster (G1), 3-year-olds and up, fillies and mares, 1 1/8 miles, “Win and You’re In” race for the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1):

Race 10, 5:48 p.m. — $400,000 Castle & Key Bourbon (G2), 2-year-olds, 1 1/16 miles (turf), “Win and You’re In” race for the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1):