Valley View earns a Sparkling Review

Edward Seltzer and Beverly Anderson's Sparkling Review was up against a field

crammed with stakes veterans in Friday's Grade 3, $150,000

Valley

View, but the stakes debutante made short work of them on the Keeneland

turf. Bet down noticeably from her 30-1 morning line, the well-bred daughter of

Lemon Drop Kid went off at 7-1 and gave Ben Colebrook his first stakes winner as

a trainer.

"I could see she was going better than everybody else (at the

sixteenth-pole)," Colebrook said. "I might have started celebrating a little bit

early, but I didn't think they were going to catch her today. We were very

excited."

The overflow field of 16 was trimmed to 12 by post time, following the

withdrawals of Daring Dancer, Token of Love, Sumba Sunset and the first

also-eligible, Share the Sugar. Daring Dancer was missing her second straight

engagement due to rain-softened ground here, having scratched from last

Saturday's Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup, and trainer Graham Motion tweeted

that she would now ship to Santa Anita for the October 25 Autumn Miss.

Spring Included sped from her rail post to set the pace through fractions of

:23 3/5, :48 2/5 and 1:13 3/5 on a course that had been upgraded to good.

Lukewarm 7-2 favorite Miss Frost prompted on the outside, with Size stalking to

her inner, but both ultimately retreated.

"I wasn't surprised that she won," Colebrook said of the sophomore filly, who

is now three-for-three on the turf. "She's been training like a good filly.

"She probably could have won a little bit easier at Kentucky Downs (where she

won a September 6 allowance). She had a rough trip that day. She won with

something left in the tank. When she broke her maiden, she broke her maiden very

impressively at Arlington (August 9). She showed she could be that kind of

filly. Today that was a good bunch of fillies that she beat."

Spring Included held second by three-quarters of a length from the

hard-charging Goldy Espony, who closed from near the tail of the field at a trip

short of her best. Fashion Fund got up from last for fourth, followed by V V

Goodnight, Annulment, Stellaris, Miss Frost, A Little Bit Sassy, Rosalind,

Valseuse and Size.

Sparkling Review's overall mark stands at 4-3-0-0, $169,475. Unraced at two,

she made her debut June 20 in a 6 1/2-furlong sprint at a muddy Churchill Downs,

finishing in a dead-heat for fifth. She then switched to turf and hasn't looked

back.