LEXINGTON, Ky. – In Italian went into a hibernation of sorts after making her most recent public appearance at Keeneland, but some five months later, the standout turf mare will be front and center once again when she makes her 5-year-old debut here Saturday as a solid favorite in the Grade 1 Jenny Wiley Stakes. It’s a predictable cycle from her trainer, Chad Brown, who has made a regular habit of swooping in from a relatively quiet winter in Florida to resume his domination of the filly-mare turf division in major spring races in Kentucky, New York, and elsewhere. In Italian was a 2022 Eclipse Award finalist in a division topped by her Brown-trained stablemate, Regal Glory. In Italian, with Irad Ortiz Jr. riding for Brown and owner Peter Brant, will break from post 2 in the $600,000 Jenny Wiley, the 10th of 11 races. Not only does she bring a tactical edge into this 1 1/16-mile race as quite possibly the lone speed in a field of nine, but her triple-digit Beyer Speed Figures from each of her last three starts, all of them Grade 1 events, tower over those of her rivals. Flaunting her superior turn of foot every time, the English-bred mare won the Diana with a 102 Beyer and the First Lady with a 104 prior to getting another 104 in something of a tough-luck defeat in the Nov. 5 Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf. “We’ve had this race picked out for her for quite some time,” Brown said. “After the Breeders’ Cup, we gave her a break the way we usually do a lot of our horses, then brought her back on a schedule to have her ready for this. Hopefully, everything is just right.” :: Bet Keeneland with Confidence: Get DRF PPs, Picks, and Betting Strategies. Shop Now.  Brown sent In Italian through 10 timed works at his Payson Park winter base before shipping her here a few days before the spring meet began. Her final pre-race work came over the Keeneland turf last Saturday, when she breezed an easy five furlongs in 1:03.60 with the “dogs” well out into the course. Brown and Brant have a second starter in this race in Speak of the Devil (post 4, Flavien Prat), a 6-year-old French-bred whose 2 3/4-length victory in her North American debut in the Grade 2 Distaff Turf Mile on the 2022 Kentucky Derby undercard at Churchill Downs was something to behold. Since then, however, she has underperformed in two subsequent starts, and she’ll really need to turn it around quickly to threaten In Italian in here. Probably the top challengers to In Italian outside the Brown camp are Queen Goddess and With The Moonlight. Queen Goddess (post 3, Luis Saez) won the Pegasus World Cup Filly and Mare Turf in late January at Gulfstream Park with an ideal stalking trip, earning a career-best 100 Beyer. Based in California with Michael McCarthy, the 5-year-old Empire Maker mare resumed breezing in early March at Santa Anita and would do well here to sit another good trip before making her move. With The Moonlight (post 5, William Buick) is a Godolphin homebred who accompanied her stablemate Modern Games across the pond a couple of weeks ago from their Newmarket base. The 4-year-old Frankel filly has flourished since last summer, when she embarked on a string of five races that included victories in the Grade 3 Saratoga Oaks and a pair of winter races in Group 2 company in Dubai. Trainer Charlie Appleby was scheduled to be on hand here early Friday to oversee her light training. Fringe players include White Frost (post 9, Frankie Dettori), an improving Gainesway homebred; Skims (post 6, John Velazquez), a Grade 2 winner making her first start versus older horses; and Pizza Bianca (post 1, Jose Ortiz), still looking for her first graded win since the 2021 BC Juvenile Fillies Turf. Perhaps the longest shot in the field, Freedom Speaks (post 8, Reylu Gutierrez), has enough speed to pressure In Italian through the opening furlongs, but her form suggests she’ll be found wanting late. Henrietta Topham (post 7, Brian Hernandez Jr.) is a possible scratch in favor of a $140,000 allowance in the condition book for Sunday. The Jenny Wiley purse includes $100,000 in bonuses restricted to registered Kentucky-breds, meaning half the field, including In Italian, will be racing for the equivalent of a $500,000 purse. Brown’s prior wins in the Jenny Wiley came with Ball Dancing (2015), Sistercharlie (2018), Rushing Fall (2019-20), and Regal Glory (2022). He also has dominated 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. This is the 35th Jenny Wiley, named for the famed pioneer who died in 1831. Post time is 5:48 p.m. Eastern. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.