LEXINGTON, Ky. – Sometimes races are run exactly as they look on paper – which, in the case of the 35th Jenny Wiley on Saturday at Keeneland, was another bit of good news for trainer Chad Brown. In Italian, the obvious front-runner, led her rivals through a futile chase from the opening strides of the 1 1/16-mile turf race when extending Brown’s domination of the Grade 1, $514,088 Jenny Wiley. Ridden by Irad Ortiz Jr., In Italian never was seriously threatened in prevailing as a 3-4 favorite. She was three lengths clear of runner-up With The Moonlight, the 2-1 second choice, when finishing in 1:39.71 over a course that has played very quick at the spring meet, just .69 seconds off the stakes record set in July 2020 by Rushing Fall. “She broke quick out of there, and then she relaxed,” Ortiz said. “You could see her ears up, going easy all the time. She switched off, that was the key. If somebody else got close to her, I could let her do her thing because I knew I had plenty in the tank.” :: Bet the races on DRF Bets! Sign up with code WINNING to get a $250 Deposit Match, $10 Free Bet, and FREE DRF Formulator.  On the wire, In Italian was three lengths ahead of With The Moonlight, who in turn had 1 1/4 lengths on White Frost in third. Mutuel payoffs were short, with In Italian paying $3.50 and the $2 exacta returning just $8.12. Brown watched from New York as In Italian, a 5-year-old British-bred mare, gave him his sixth Jenny Wiley victory, all of them since 2015. Owner Peter Brant, who was winning the race for the third time, was on hand. “She’s a wonderful mare,” Brant said. In Italian was a finalist in 2022 Eclipse Award voting in the filly-mare turf division won by Regal Glory, another Brant mare trained by Brown. In Italian now has won 6 of 10 starts, with this triumph perpetuating just how he ended 2022 with wins in the Grade 1 Diana and Grade 1 First Lady, followed by a runner-up finish in what had been her most recent race, the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf here last November. After the top three, the order was Skims, Pizza Bianca, and Queen Goddess. An original field of nine was reduced by the early scratches of Speak of the Devil, Henrietta Topham, and Freedom Speaks. The gross purse was $500,000, with additional bonuses restricted to registered Kentucky-breds going unclaimed by In Italian, With The Moonlight, and Skims, all of them bred overseas. Brown’s prior wins in the Jenny Wiley came with Ball Dancing (2015), Sistercharlie (2018), Rushing Fall (2019-20), and Regal Glory (2022). Brant’s winners were Sistercharlie and Regal Glory. Brown, the four-time Eclipse champion trainer, also has reigned supreme in the Keeneland fall counterpart, the Grade 1 First Lady, to an even greater extent, having swept the last five runnings for a record total of six overall. Most remarkably, Brown has trained the champion in this division in seven of the last 11 years. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.