(Thorpedo Anna / Photos by Holly M. Smith)

From the Keeneland Media Team / Amy Owens:

Reigning Horse of the Year Thorpedo Anna Heads Field
for $650,000 Juddmonte Spinster on Fall Stars Sunday

LEXINGTON, KY (Sept. 30, 2025) – Hill ‘n’ Dale Equine Holdings, Magdalena Racing, Mark Edwards and Judy Hicks’ Thorpedo Anna, the 2024 Horse of the Year, headlines a field of five entered Tuesday for Sunday’s 70th running of the $650,000 Juddmonte Spinster (G1) for fillies and mares.

Among those lined up to face Thorpedo Anna is D.J. Stable’s 3-year-old Nitrogen, winner of the Alabama (G1) Presented by Keeneland Sales, who will be making her first start against older horses.

The Juddmonte Spinster is one of three stakes on Sunday’s 10-race program that starts at 1 p.m. ET.

In the other two Sunday stakes:

The 35th running of the $400,000 Castle & Key Bourbon (G2) attracted a field of 12 headed by Repole Stable’s Final Score, winner of the With Anticipation (G3) at Saratoga.

The eighth running of the $300,000 Indian Summer (L) Presented by Keeneland Select drew a field of nine headed by Leland Ackerley Racing’s Obliteration, a graded stakes winner on dirt and runner-up in the Kentucky Downs Juvenile Sprint Stakes (L) in his grass debut.

The fields for the three Sunday stakes, with trainers, riders and weights from the rail out, are:

Race 8, 4:44 p.m. — $300,000 Indian Summer (L) Presented by Keeneland Select, 2-year-olds, 5½ furlongs (turf):

Post Horse Trainer Jockey Weight
1 Rogue Legend (GB) Wesley Ward Flavien Prat 118 lbs.
2 Bobrovsky Dale Romans Junior Alvarado 120
3 Trendsetter Ben Colebrook Luan Machado 120
4 Uncle Bucky Susan Anderson Irving Moncada 118
5 Obliteration Steve Asmussen Jose Ortiz 120
6 Schwarzenegger Wesley Ward John Velazquez 118
7 Zeus’s Echo Chris Davis Tyler Gaffalione 118
8 Twilight Delight Daniel Leitch Luis Saez 118
9 Azizam (GB) George Weaver Irad Ortiz Jr. 118


Race 9, 5:16 p.m. — $650,000 Juddmonte Spinster (G1), 3-year-olds and up, fillies and mares, 1 1/8 miles, “Win and You’re In” race for the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1):

 

Post Horse Trainer Jockey Weight
1 Chilled Vicki Oliver John Velazquez 125
2 Scylla Bill Mott Junior Alvarado 125
3 Nitrogen Mark Casse Jose Ortiz 121
4 Gin Gin Brendan Walsh Luis Saez 125
5 Thorpedo Anna Kenny McPeek Flavien Prat 125


Race 10, 5:48 p.m. — $400,000 Castle & Key Bourbon (G2), 2-year-olds, 1 1/16 miles (turf), “Win and You’re In” race for the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1):

 

Post Horse Trainer Jockey Weight
1 Turf Star Graham Motion Tyler Gaffalione 118
2 J J Grey Kenny McPeek Emmanuel Esquivel 118
3 Repentless Kelsey Danner Adam Beschizza 118
4 Exonerate Brad Cox Flavien Prat 118
5 Blinging It Back Mark Casse Axel Concepcion 118
6 Final Score Todd Pletcher Irad Ortiz Jr. 122
7 Awesome Connection Chris Davis Jose Ortiz 118
8 Gordon Pass Will Walden Cristian Torres 118
9 Password Rodolphe Brisset Luan Machado 118
10 Vintur Mark Casse Florent Geroux 118
11 Casa Cielo Keith Desormeaux Francisco Arrieta 120
12 Dr. Agne Cherie DeVaux Luis Saez 118

 

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