A strong performance by Fille d’Esprit and a track-record setter who did not win were among the main story lines today with four stakes at Colonial Downs.
We asked our Derby Bill, Nick, and Frank for their expert selections for this afternoon’s four Colonial Downs stakes. Here’s what they came up with.
With her racing career nearing its end, Kaylasaurus will seek her third stakes win, and a MATCH Series title, in Colonial Downs’s Seeking the Pearl.
All five dirt races run Monday at Colonial Downs – including four MATCH Series stakes – produced track records for the distance.
Monday’s Chesapeake Stakes at Colonial Downs tops the MATCH Series slate there, with three of the race’s entrants already having MATCH points.
Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott hasn’t started a horse at Colonial Downs since 2011, but he’s slated to end that streak with three entered in Monday stakes.