Miss Keller finds a seam in Canadian

"She really did (relax nicely)," Castellano said. "My  concern was keeping

track of somebody else. It was a small field, not much speed in the race. I

tracked in behind. She saw it very well today." 

"She likes to track horses," Attfield noted. "When she gallops in the

morning, she won't go very kindly on her own, but she'll track. She did very

well today. When he asked her to go, she split horses and went through there

very nicely." 

Miss Keller paid $5.20, $2.60 and $2.10 while starting the $13 exactor and

$48.90 triactor (3-6-5). Latin Love was herself five lengths clear of Magic Broomstick,

who nosed out Points of Grace for third. Lemon Twirl (Lemon Drop Kid) and

Jenny's So Great (Greatness) occupied the last two spots throughout.

Miss Keller has amassed $436,507 in earnings from her 16-5-2-2 record.

Originally trained by John Oxx in Ireland, she joined Attfield last summer. A

near-miss second in the second division of the Valley View S. (G3) at Keeneland

last fall, the bay placed in this season's Churchill Distaff Turf Mile S. (G2)

and Nassau S. (Can-G2) prior to breaking through with her first stakes score in

the August 4 De La Rose S. at Saratoga. In her only interim start, Miss Keller

was a fast-closing third in the August 28 Ballston Spa H. (G2).

"She got a long way out of it -- the last race at Saratoga -- a bit  too

far out of it, then she came running very strongly," Attfield said. "But the

speed didn't come back that much and she had a lot of ground to make up. It was

actually a very good race." 

Bred by Hascombe and Valiant Studs in Ireland, Miss Keller is out of the

stakes-winning Warning (GB) mare Ingozi, making her a half-sister to the Group

2-placed Kotsi (Nayef) and the multiple Group 3-placed Sir George Turner (Nashwan).

Another half-sibling, the winning Oshiponga (Barathea [Ire]), is the dam of

Group 2 hero Hatta Fort (GB) (Cape Cross [Ire]).

Ingozi is herself a half-sister to multiple Group 3-winning sire Inchinor

(GB) (Ahonoora). Miss Keller's second dam is Italian champion Inchmurrin (Ire) (Lomond),

and this is also the family of 1999 Coronation S. (Eng-G1) heroine Balisada

(Kris).