Thorpedo Anna asserts her dominance in the Apple Blossom Handicap (Coady Media)
Churchill Downs Press Release
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Reigning Horse of the Year Thorpedo Anna makes her return to Churchill Downs on Friday when she headlines a field of seven fillies and mares for the 40th running of the $1 million Fasig-Tipton La Troienne (GI) going 1 1/16 miles on the main track.
Owned by Brookdale Racing, Mark Edwards, breeder Judy Hicks and Magdalena Racing, Thorpedo Anna will be the first reigning Horse of the Year to race Kentucky Derby weekend at Churchill Downs since Wise Dan in 2014. She last raced here a year ago with a 4 ¾-length victory in the Longines Kentucky Oaks (GI).
Trained by Kenny McPeek, Thorpedo Anna capped her championship season with a 2 ½-length victory over Raging Sea in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff (GI) and opened 2025 with victories at Oaklawn Park in the Azeri (GII) and Apple Blossom (GI). Brian Hernandez Jr. has the mount from post 2.
Alpha Delta Stables’ Raging Sea will be making her 2025 debut for trainer Chad Brown. A four-time graded stakes winner last year highlighted by a victory in the Personal Ensign (GI) Raging Sea will be ridden by Flavien Prat from post 4.
Brown also will send out Klaravich Stables’ Randomized. A two-time Grade I winner, Randomized will be making her 2025 debut and be ridden by Joel Rosario from post 5.
The field for the Fasig-Tipton La Troienne (Race 7, post time 2:23 p.m.):
- Dorth Vader (John Velazquez, George Weaver
- Thorpedo Anna (Brian Hernandez Jr., Kenny McPeek)
- Literate (Luis Saez, Martin Drexler)
- Raging Sea (Flavien Prat, Chad Brown)
- Randomized (Joel Rosario, Chad Brown)
- Taxed (Cristian Torres, Randy Morse)
- Free Like a Girl (Jose Ortiz, Chasey Deville Pomier)
