Toinette targeting Jenny Wiley at Keeneland

Toinette has won four stakes, including three Grade 2 or Grade 3 races, in her 12-race career. She has finished ninth and fourth in two Grade 1 races and may have another chance to race at that level next month.

Toinette won her 2020 debut in Saturday’s Grade 3 Wilshire Stakes at a mile on turf for fillies and mares at Santa Anita. Trainer Neil Drysdale said Sunday that the Grade 1 Jenny Wiley Stakes, a $350,000 race for fillies and mares at 1 1/16 miles on July 11 at Keeneland, is part of Toinette’s short-term plans.

“We’re looking at the Jenny Wiley because it’s a Grade 1,” he said.

A winner of eight starts, Toinette won the Wilshire by 2 3/4 lengths as the 3-5 favorite in her first start since a fourth-place finish in the Grade 1 Matriarch Stakes at Del Mar last December. Toinette led briefly, stalked a rival on the backstretch and turn, and took the lead again in early stretch.

“It was a strangely run race,” Drysdale said. ‘She was a little bit fresh and keen. All-in-all, I thought it was a nice comeback race.”

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