Frivolous lights up Fleur de Lis toteboard at 32-1

G. Watts Humphrey Jr.'s homebred Frivolous (Empire Maker) was sent off the

32-1 second longest shot in Saturday's $200,000

Fleur

de Lis H. (G2) at Churchill Downs, but ran like a favorite to take the "Win

& You're In" contest by 1 1/2 lengths and earn an automatic berth into the

Breeders' Cup Distaff (G1) this fall at Keeneland.

Jockey Jon Court and Frivolous maintained a constant presence outside of

Yahilwa (Medaglia d'Oro) as that bay mare set the pace through fractions of :23

3/5, :46 4/5 and 1:10 4/5. Sheer Drama (Burning Roma), the 6-5 favorite, was

biding her time just off the pace behind the front runners down the backstretch.

Frivolous drew even with Yahilwa rounding the turn and had taken command by

the time the two reached the stretch, with Sheer Drama closing fast from the

four path. Those latter two began spinning their wheels in the lane but the

Victoria Oliver-trained winner continued motoring to finish 1 1/8 miles on the

fast main track in 1:49 1/5.

Frivolous paid $66.20 to her faithful, but few, supporters for earning her

second graded score. Sheer Drama just got the better of Tiz Windy (Tiznow) by a

head on the wire, while Yahilwa completed the top four under the wire another

three lengths back.

Now 4-3-3 from 20 career starts, Frivolous has banked $456,818 in lifetime

earnings. The dark bay mare tried stakes company for the first time as a

sophomore and just missed when second in the 2013 Arlington Oaks (G3). Last year

she was runner-up again at the northern Illinois track, this time in the

Arlington Matron (G3), and filled the fourth spot next out in the 2014 edition

of the Fleur de Lis.