Rattle N Roll scored his third consecutive graded stakes win, overcoming trouble at the top of the stretch and launching his customary furious late rally to win the Grade 3, $225,000 Blame Stakes on Saturday evening at Churchill Downs. Favored Rattle N Roll ($5.48) and regular rider Brian Hernandez Jr., were in good striking position in fourth and saving ground leaving the backstretch, just more than 1 1/2 lengths behind aggressive leader Barber Road, who was tracked by multiple-turf-Grade 1 winner Santin, who was trying dirt for the first time. But around the far turn, as the field approached the head of the stretch, the duo found themselves behind a wall of four horses, with Pioneer of Medina and Call Me Fast revving up on the outside of the two leaders. Cutting the corner, room opened up at the rail as Barber Road drifted out, and Rattle N Roll honed in on that opening. But Barber Road came back in, and Hernandez had to take up and alter course on Rattle N Roll. He surged past the tiring leaders and took aim at Call Me Fast, who had opened up a three-length lead. Rattle N Roll charged through the final stages to collar Call Me Fast late, kicking clear to a 1 1/4-length win. :: Take your handicapping to the next level and play with FREE DRF Past Performances - Formulator or Classic.  The final time for the 1 1/16 miles was 1:48.93. Call Me Fast held second by three-quarters of a length over a closing Happy American. They were followed, in order, by Barber Road, Santin, Pioneer of Medina, Cooke Creek, and Masqueparade. Rattle N Roll, a 4-year-old Connect colt who races for Lucky Seven Stable, took the Grade 1 Breeders' Futurity two years ago, the first of seven career stakes wins. This spring, he won the Grade 3 Ben Ali on April 22 at Keeneland, then rallied to win the Grade 3 Pimlico Special by a nose on May 19 at Pimlico. He was running back on two weeks' rest in the Blame. "He's a fantastic horse to be around," McPeek said. "It's a little risky to run one back in a couple of weeks, but this is a really, really great horse to be around. ... But he eats well, he likes his work, he's great to be around. He's very confident. Just very proud of him." Saturday's six-stakes card was run under the specter of 12 fatalities at Churchill Downs since the track opened for training in late March. While extensive testing of the racing surfaces has not revealed any abnormalities, and no underlying common causes have yet been found in investigations into the stricken horses, Churchill Downs announced on Friday night that, following this weekend's action, it will move the remainder of its spring-summer race meet to Ellis Park in Henderson, Ky. The Blame is the prep race for what will anchor the biggest remaining card of the Churchill-at-Ellis meet, the Grade 1, $1 million Stephen Foster on July 1. McPeek has both Rattle N Roll and Smile Happy, impressive winner of the Grade 2 Alysheba Stakes in May at Churchill, as leading candidates for that race. He said both will be nominated and considered for the race. "Smile Happy and Rattle N Roll are both owned by the Mackin family, and it’s a good problem to have moving forward with two very strong caliber horses for the classic races," McPeek said. Earlier on the card, Idiomatic coasted on the lead under a savvy ride from Florent Geroux to win the Grade 3, $225,000 Shawnee Stakes for fillies and mares, the sister race to the Blame. The Shawnee is a steppingstone to the Grade 2, $400,000 Fleur de Lis on the July 1 card at Ellis. Geroux put his hands down out of the gate on Idiomatic, allowing the filly to establish the lead through an opening quarter of 23.82 seconds. He then rose slightly in his irons and encouraged her to relax, and successfully slowed the half-mile split down to 47.87 seconds, despite being hounded by Hidden Connection. From there, Idiomatic had plenty in the tank, repelling her foes around the far turn and easily holding off a late bid from Sixtythreecaliber in the lane to win by 2 1/2 lengths. She finished the 1 1/16 miles in 1:42.13. “She was quick away from the gate, but was able to settle her speed on the front end and moved comfortably,” Geroux said. “This is the first time I’ve been on her during the races, but you can tell from her previous starts she likes to be close or on the lead." Idiomatic, a Juddmonte Farm homebred trained by Brad Cox, won three straight races over the winter at Turfway, including the Latonia Stakes. She came into the Shawnee off a runner-up effort in the Grade 3 Ruffian at Belmont. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.