Sharing picks up where she left off with Edgewood victory
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Only once in the last 13 months has Sharing lost a race, that when traveling to Royal Ascot in June for the Group 1 Coronation Stakes, in which she finished second. She picked up where she left off in this country, returning to Churchill Downs on Friday to score her fifth win in her last six starts when taking the Grade 2, $300,000 Edgewood Stakes for 3-year-old fillies.
Sharing, last year’s winner of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf, had won the Tepin on the Churchill Downs turf in May in her first start of a delayed 2020 campaign, her only prep before heading to Royal Ascot. After dealing, trainer Graham Motion said, with a minor foot issue upon returning to these shores, Sharing got back in a regular work pattern and subsequently got back to her winning ways, prevailing by 1 1/4 lengths over Hendy Woods.
Sharing ($3.20), heavily favored at 3-5 against her six rivals, took up an ideal stalking position outside of pacesetter In Good Spirits during the first part of the one-mile grass race. As the field went around the far turn, jockey Manny Franco nudged Sharing to up the pressure on In Good Spirits, and by the time the field straightened away for the drive Sharing was on her way to victory.
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Hendy Woods, who saved ground behind those two entering the lane, angled out for a challenge, but she could make no serious impact on Sharing. Hendy Woods finished 2 1/2 lengths in front of third-place Lucky Betty, who ran on for third as In Good Spirits faded to fourth.
Walk In Marrekesh, who looked ideally placed just behind Sharing entering the far turn, didn’t go on with it and retreated to finish sixth, behind Pranked. Mariafoot trailed throughout.
Outburst was scratched, reducing the original field of eight to seven.
Sharing completed one mile on turf in 1:36.87. The course was rated good, and the runners were kicking up noticeable divots during the race.
Sharing, by Speightstown out of Shared Account, the 2010 Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf winner, has now won five times in seven starts. She earned $182,280 on Friday to bring her career earnings past the $1 million mark for her owners, Eclipse Thoroughbreds and Gainesway Stable.