Dicey goes for third straight with red-hot rider in Miranda Diane Stakes

Apprentice Kylee Jordan has been a force this meet at Will Rogers Downs and is the track’s leading rider. She will attempt to keep her momentum going Monday when she teams with Dicey in the $55,000 Miranda Diane.

The six-furlong race is for fillies and mares bred in Oklahoma. It’s the first stakes of a meet that opened in March.

Dicey is looking for her third consecutive win. She will have to defeat eight others, including fellow stakes winners Country Daisy, Casino Queen, She’s Shiney, and Dipping In.

Dicey closed out her 2021 season in November with an allowance victory at Remington Park. She returned to action on March 21 and won a Will Rogers allowance over open company. Jordan was aboard for the two-length score, which was one of four winners the rider had on the card. Dicey earned a Beyer Speed Figure of 75, which is the best last-race number in the field Monday.

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Jordan, who had a second four-win day at Will Rogers on April 4, has won a total of 18 races from 52 mounts at the meet through Thursday. The horses have earned $204,673, which leads all riders. The second-leading rider is Floyd Wethey Jr., who is 10 for 34 at Will Rogers.

Both Jordan and Wethey also are riding at Oaklawn. Jordan won her first career race May 10, 2021, at Will Rogers.

Wethey has the mount on Casino Queen, who will break from the rail for trainer Kenneth Nolan. She exits the same allowance as Dicey, and finished sixth over the surface rated sloppy. It was a rare wet-track appearance for Casino Queen, whose six wins have come on fast surfaces, including last summer’s Muscogee Creek Nation Stakes at Fair Meadows.

Country Daisy is moving back into the Oklahoma-bred ranks off a fourth-place finish in a Sam Houston Race Park allowance Feb. 25. The race has become a key one. The winner, Ima Discreet Lady, returned in her next start to capture the $100,000 Yellow Rose at Sam Houston, and the runner-up, Champaign Affair, accounted for an allowance at Sam Houston.

Country Daisy won the Miranda Diane in 2020. Leandro Goncalves has the mount for trainer Ray Ashford Jr.

Ashford has a second starter in Dipping In. She is moving back to both one turn and dirt off a fifth-place finish in a turf route allowance Feb. 16 at Sam Houston. Gerardo Mora has the mount on the mare, who won the 2020 Useeit Stkaes at Remington Park.