CNL: Audley Farm well represented in weekend stakes

The 2024 Virginia Breeder of the Year, Audley Farm Equine, is well-represented in this weekend’s quartet of stakes at Colonial Downs.

The track will host the Punch Line and Edward P. Evans Stakes on Friday and follow it up with the Brookmeade and the Glenn Petty on Saturday. The latter two are for fillies and mares.

Audley Farm Stable’s homebred Quadra will make her stakes bow on Saturday in the Brookmeade. The 3-year-old Frosted filly out of the War Front mare Quadrant broke her maiden last November at Laurel Park in impressive fashion.

Quadra finished second and was disqualified to third in her season bow in a Delaware allowance. With one start under her belt as a sophomore, the 2-1 second choice in the morning line will take on a field of six fillies and mares, all looking for their first stakes victory.

Trained by Arnaud Delacour, Quadra will be reunited with Mychel Sanchez, who was aboard for her lone win.

Quadra won at first asking at Laurel. Photo by Jim McCue.

The breeders are also behind the 8-5 Brookmeade morning line favorite, Mila Candy, who is a half-sibling to Determined Kingdom. Owned and trained by Ilkay Kantarmaci, the Twirling Candy filly out of the Fastnet Rock mare Filia will be stretching out and making her turf debut after running fifth last out in the Jersey Girl at Saratoga.

Speaking of Determined Kingdom: he is the 4-5 morning line favorite in Friday’s Punch Line at Colonial Downs. The Virginia-bred, now trained by Mike Trombetta for the Estate of R. Larry Johnson, seeks his fourth straight Punch Line victory, and a win would put him past $800,000 in career earnings.

Audley won’t have a say in the Glenn Petty, however. The Petty, a 5 ½-furlong dash carded as the seventh race, has attracted a field of seven, none bred or owned by Audley.

Tabbed as the 4-5 morning line favorite in a field of seven, Madison Avenue Racing Stable, Morris Kernan Jr., and Jagger’s Mystic Seaport aims for back-to-back wins in the $125,000 Glenn Petty. Trained by Jamie Ness, five of the Midshipman mare’s 11 lifetime wins have come on the turf.

Along with a second-place finish against open company in last year’s $150,000 Camptown Handicap, Mystic Seaport boasts a 4-2-1-0 local record. Named to ride the headliner in each of this weekend’s four stakes, Mychel Sanchez will guide Mystic Seaport from post 5 in the Glenn Petty. 

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