Inagoodway goes for three-peat in More Than Even Stakes

Inagoodway will attempt to win the $55,000 More Than Even Stakes for the third year in a row Monday at Will Rogers Downs, and to do so she will have to defeat a pair of up-and-coming fillies in Spring Steen and She’s Shiney.

The More Than Even is a 1 1/16-mile race restricted to fillies and mares bred in Oklahoma.

Inagoodway is part of a five-horse field rounded out by Teaspoon and Socks, both of whom are coming off fourth-place finishes in conditioned allowance route races at Will Rogers.

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Inagoodway, by Save Big Money

Last 3 Beyers: 41-69-45

◗ Inagoodway first won the More Than Even in 2017 at the age of 4. She repeated last year at 5 when wiring her rivals by a length. Her other stakes win came in the $145,000 Oklahoma Classics Distaff in 2017 at Remington Park.

◗ The three stakes scores all came at two turns, and Inagoodway will be stretching back out in distance off a fifth-place finish to Spring Steen in the $55,000 Miranda Diane at six furlongs April 29 at Will Rogers.

◗ The last time Inagoodway raced around two turns she was second in a starter allowance at a mile April 3 at Will Rogers. The out was her first in more than five months, and she could be sitting on a peak race Monday in her third start since October.

◗ Inagoodway has worked back-to-back bullets at Will Rogers since the Miranda Diane, among them five-eighths in 59.80 seconds May 13.

◗ Luis Quinonez has the mount from post 3 for trainer Mark Buehrer.

Spring Steen, by Maclean’s Music

Last 3 Beyers: 82-73-68

◗ She is the one to catch. Spring Steen set strong fractions and went on to a nine-length win in the Miranda Diane, her second straight sprint win at the meet. She also wired her rivals in a first-level allowance April 8, winning off by 9 1/2 lengths.

◗ Spring Steen owns the field’s best last-race Beyer Speed Figure, an 82 for the Miranda Diane.

◗ The More Than Even will be just her second start at two turns, with her first a third-place finish in the $70,000 Useeit for 3-year-old fillies bred in Oklahoma. The mile race was Dec. 16 at Remington.

◗ Curtis Kimes has the mount from post 4 for trainer Francisco Bravo.

She’s Shiney, by Save Big Money

Last 3 Beyers: 77-63-62

◗ She’s won both of her starts at the meet, starting with a conditioned allowance at 5 1/2 furlongs March 25. She’s Shiney then stretched out to a mile and won the $55,000 Cinema Stakes for 3-year-old fillies by 14 1/4 lengths April 22.