Winning Colors, Mint Julep top Saturday card

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Steve Asmussen and Brad Cox trainees are among the principals in a terrific renewal of the Winning Colors, one of two filly-mare stakes that highlight an 11-race Saturday card at Churchill. Asmussen has Mia Mischief, and Cox has Break Even in a six-furlong race that also drew Spiced Perfection and Bell’s the One in a field of nine.

The Winning Colors (race 7) and the Mint Julep (race 11) both are Grade 3, $100,000 races. Cox has two of the top contenders among a full gate of 14 in the Mint Julep, a 1 1/16-mile turf race, in Beau Recall and Juliet Foxtrot.

◗ Frank’s Rockette earned an 87 Beyer Speed Figure in winning a six-furlong allowance in 1:08.80 on Monday at Churchill. The Bill Mott-trained 3-year-old filly now has three wins and four seconds from seven career starts.

Later Monday, Echo Town earned a 92 Beyer in winning a six-furlong allowance in 1:09.05 for Asmussen. The 3-year-old Speightstown colt was beaten a head in the Bachelor at Oaklawn in his previous start.

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◗ Marianne Scherer will run her first starter as a trainer when saddling Homeview for the third race Friday. A former longtime exercise rider for Bill Mott, Scherer is the wife of Eric Scherer, a member of the Churchill gate crew, and the daughter-in-law of Merrill Scherer, who said this week he has “mostly retired” from a lengthy training career. Merrill Scherer turns 81 in July.