Heres my new Untapable!! Top Decile Heads Silverbulletday 01/13/2015 3:08 PM ET The 23rd running of the $125,000 Silverbulletday Stakes has produced arguably the most impressive field in recent memory with its nine entrants for Jan. 17 at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots. Led by 14 Hands Winery Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (gr. I) runner-up Top Decile and Golden Rod Stakes (gr. II) winner West Coast Belle, the lineup for the one mile and 70 yard test is further deepened by a regally bred full sister to last year’s winner in Forever Unbridled, along with last-out stakes winners Zooming and Moneysoncharlotte, plus a double-barreled assault from the red-hot barn of Larry Jones (who has won the race twice in the last six years). Klaravich Stables and William Lawrence’s Top Decile enters the Silverbulletday practically one length from being crowned a champion. A winner upon her debut at Saratoga Race Course in August, the Kentucky-bred charge was second by a half-length in the $400,000 Alcibiades Stakes (gr. I) after a bad break one race prior to losing the Breeders’ Cup by the same margin following a wide trip. Regarded highly enough to attract the riding services of Mike Smith after regular jockey Rosie Napravnik’s retirement, the chestnut daughter of Congrats has been aimed toward the Silverbulletday since returning from a brief freshening for conditioner Al Stall, Jr. Her connections hope to smile for the camera after she and Smith break from post nine in their first step toward the $1 million Kentucky Oaks (gr. I). Gary and Mary West’s steel gray West Coast Belle is the latest in an honor roll of talented fillies trained by New Orleans native Wayne Catalano. A homebred whose immense determination belies her miniscule stature, this daughter of reigning champion sire Tapit is undefeated in three starts—winning a maiden at Monmouth Park and the $58,000 Rags to Riches Stakes at Churchill Downs prior to the aforementioned Golden Rod at that same venue. A mid-pack closer who exhibits the gameness of her Kentucky Oaks-winning great granddam Dispute, West Coast Belle gets the return services of Golden Rod pilot Shaun Bridgmohan from post two. Carl R. Moore Management’s Zooming, a three-time winner and conqueror of the $100,000 Trapeze Stakes at Remington Park on Dec. 14 at a two-turn mile, enters the Silverbulletday on the upswing for trainer Bret Calhoun. A daughter of After Market who has shown excellent tactical speed for her connections, she will have to step up to prove victorious, but did show a liking for the local surface with a bullet four-furlong work on Jan. 9 in :48.60. Miguel Mena rides from post six. The Florida-based winter barn of 2011 Louisiana Derby (gr. I)-winning conditioner Kelly Breen will ship in George and Lori Hall’s $75,000 Hut Hut Stakes winner Money’soncharlotte. A daughter of Mizzen Mast and full-sister to four-time stakes winner Mizzcantbewrong, she waltzed wire-to-wire on Nov. 29 at the Hut Hut’s two-turn mile distance at Gulfstream Park West. The winner of two of three career starts will break from post four under Robby Albarado. Charles Fipke’s homebred Forever Unbridled—a full-sister to 2014 Silverbulletday winner Unbridled Forever—enters off a professional course and distance maiden win on Dec. 12 for conditioner Dallas Stewart, who also trained her aforestated sister and Kentucky Oaks-winning dam, Lemons Forever. The daughter of the late Unbridled’s Song displayed her fitness on Jan. 11 with an eye-opening best of 114 bullet four-furlong work in :48.80. Brian Hernandez, Jr. has the return call from post five. Trainer Larry Jones has two shots in his Silverbulletday holster in the form of Fletcher and Carolyn Grays Im a Chatterbox and Tommy Ligon and Michael Pressleys Divine Dawn. While Chatterbox was a fading fourth in the Golden Rod, she has trained admirably since moving to the Jones barn from Kenny McPeek. The daughter of Munnings will make the walk to the paddock with the two-for-two Divine Dawn. A dark gray with a potent turn of foot and admirable versatility, the Kentucky-bred daughter of Divine Park has been well-fancied by her trainer since she was a yearling at Airdrie Stud. On Oct. 17, she won at first asking at Keeneland at six furlongs on the dirt. Two months later, she awed many with a facile victory at 7½ grassy furlongs in her two-turn debut at the Fair Grounds. Florent Geroux will ride I’m a Chatterbox from the rail, while Kerwin Clark has the call on Divine Dawn from post three. The remainder of the Silverbulletday field is comprised of Queens Ready (Sal Gonzalez, Jr., post seven) and Slava (Alexander Reznikov, post eight). Silverbulletday S.FAIR GROUNDS RACE COURSE & SLOTS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 2015, RACE 9STKDirt4:24 PM (local)PP1Im a Chatterbox (KY)Florent Geroux116J. Larry Jones2West Coast Belle (KY)Shaun Bridgmohan122Wayne M. Catalano3Divine Dawn (KY)Kerwin D. Clark118J. Larry Jones4Moneysoncharlotte (KY)Robby Albarado122Kelly J. Breen5Forever Unbridled (KY)Brian Joseph Hernandez, Jr.116Dallas Stewart6Zooming (TX)Miguel Mena122W. Bret Calhoun7Queens Ready (KY)Sal Gonzalez, Jr.116Gennadi Dorochenko8Slava (KY)Alexander Reznikov116Gennadi Dorochenko9Top Decile (KY)Mike E. Smith116Albert M. Stall, Jr.
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