Red Mile: Goodwalkspoiled knocks off favorites in Kentucky Championship Series

Goodwalkspoiled, a daughter of Pebble Beach, played the role of spoiler when she converted a pocket ride off fast fractions in an attritional stretch drive to score a 1:51 victory in the $80,000 Kentucky Championship Series third preliminary for 2-year-old pacing fillies on Tuesday afternoon (Aug. 25) at The Red Mile.

Driver Kyle Husted pushed from the pylon post with Goodwalkspoiled to take the lead into a 27 1/5 first quarter, but relinquished control up the backstretch as 9-5 favorite My Taylors Swift (driven by Ronnie Wrenn Jr.) marched out of fourth to snag the top. My Taylors Swift cleared command to a 53 4/5 half and rolled steadily through the last turn to clock three-quarters in 1:21 4/5, at which point Jk Simcha (Yannick Gingras) loomed first-up on the rim and prompted Husted to angle from the pocket for the stretch drive. Goodwalkspoiled set her sights on My Taylors Swift and dug into that weary leader as they drifted through the stretch in an eight-wide charge to the line. Husted successfully landed the winning blow in the final strides to edge to a half-length victory over My Taylors Swift, while 42-1 shot Carly Shay (Scott Zeron) weaved through traffic to zip up an inside seam for third and Jk Simcha stayed on in fourth.

Amy Husted trains Goodwalkspoiled, a filly out of the Shadow Play mare Play Nice, for owners Husted Racing LLC. and John Schwarz Jr. The filly, a $27,000 purchase as a yearling at the 2025 Midwest Standardbred Sale, collected her third win from four starts and has now banked $70,000 in her career. She paid $34.72 to win.

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The Red Mile also hosted $35,000 divisions of Kentucky Sire Stakes for trotting 4-year-olds of each sex. R Dutchess (Tim Tetrick) swept to the lead past a 28 4/5 first quarter and cut a quick clip of 55 2/5 and 1:22 3/5 to notch a lifetime-best 1:50 2/5 win over pocket-chaser Winnpanzee (Yannick Gingras) in the dash for trotting mares. Gimpanzee Dancer (Andy McCarthy) won the division for trotting males after following tempo-setter Whiskey Wow (Todd McCarthy) through splits of 28, 55 and 1:23 1/5 to pounce and roll under-wraps for a 1:50 4/5 win by three lengths.

John Butenschoen trains R Dutchess, a Father Patrick-The Ice Dutchess mare with 10 wins from 38 starts and $671,070 earned, for lessees M&L of Delaware and Armitage Farm. Chris Beaver conditions Gimpanzee Dancer, a Gimpanzee-Weslynn Dancer stallion with 14 wins from 43 starts and $654,467 earned, and co-owns him with Carolina Ortiz Acosta and Derek Ivany. Both won as the odds-on favorite in their respective divisions with R Dutchess paying $3.32 to win and Gimpanzee Dancer returning $2.80.

Haven (Andy McCarthy, 1:51 3/5 winning mile; $33.06 to win) topped the pair of $30,000 Kentucky Commonwealth Series divisions when she ground uncovered after leader Sister Girl Blues (Dexter Dunn) in the last turn and then held off pocket-rallying Sweet As Silk (Todd McCarthy) to win by a neck. Lindy Believer (Yannick Gingras, 1:51 4/5; $28.36) ripped from a second-over trip to upset in the other division by a half-length, collaring pace-setter Holy (Dexter Dunn) at the line with first-up Ryan Station (Atlee Bender) giving chase in third.

Noah Stanley of Buckinghamshire, England, scored his first U.S. training win during the Tuesday card at The Red Mile. Stanley sent Whispering Angel, driven by his son Noah Stanley Jr., to the track and scored a 1:55 1/5 victory, bolting from last to first over the top of the field. The win was also the first stateside this year for Stanley Jr., who debuted in America at Oak Grove in 2025 and won a total of three races from 13 drives before heading back to England.

Live harness racing at The Red Mile resumes Wednesday (Aug. 26) with a 15-race card headlined by the $80,000 Kentucky Championship Series third preliminary for 2-year-old trotting fillies. First race post time is 1 p.m. (EDT).

For more information on the 2026 live harness racing season, visit The Red Mile website (https://www.redmileracing.com).

--press release (Red Mile)--