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Flashing opts for Raven Run

Flashing and Migliore will go for their second graded win together (Harold Roth/Horsephotos.com)

The Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (G1) was an option for Godolphin's FLASHING (A.P. Indy) following her respectable third-place effort in the Presque Isle Downs Masters S. (G3), but her connections are already well-represented with Seventh Street (Street Cry [Ire]) and Sara Louise (Malibu Moon) and opted to keep the Test S. (G1) winner with three-year-old fillies in Saturday's $300,000 Raven Run S. (G2) at Keeneland. The Saeed bin Suroor trainee heads a field of 16, including two also-eligibles, in the seven-furlong event on Polytrack.

Flashing broke her maiden at Aqueduct and captured a pair of allowance/optional claiming events before winning her graded stakes debut, the Nassau County S. (G3), in early May. She was no match for Rachel Alexandra (Medaglia d'Oro) in the 1 1/8-mile Mother Goose S. (G1) next time out, but successfully cut back to seven furlongs in the Test at Saratoga, recording a 1 1/4-length decision. The chestnut offered a good rally for third, three lengths back of top Filly & Mare Sprint contender Informed Decision (Monarchos), when making her synthetic bow in the Presque Isle Downs Masters, and the 123-pound highweight will keep Richard Migliore in the saddle on Saturday.

Trainer Larry Jones, who is poised to retire on November 8, will look to go out a winner with his final Keeneland stakes runner when he saddles JUST JENDA (Menifee). Winner of the Monmouth Oaks (G3) and Honeybee S. (G3) this season, the chestnut earned a field-best 105 BRIS Speed rating in the former, but she's never raced over a synthetic track. The hard-hitting filly (11-6-1-2 overall record) will keep regular rider Gabriel Saez up.

Other contenders include Test runner-up PRETTY PROLIFIC (Lion Heart); Grade 1 runner-up JARDIN (Montbrook), who exits a sharp 4 1/2-length allowance/optional claiming score at Belmont Park for conditioner Tom Albertrani; and last-out Gallant Bloom H. (G2) third-placer SKY HAVEN (Sky Mesa).


 


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