Micheline, Brown Duo Headline Field of Six for Coolmore Jenny Wiley

LEXINGTON, KY – Godolphin homebred Micheline, winner of the Hillsborough (G2) at Tampa Bay Downs in her 2021 debut, and the graded stakes-winning duo of Etoile and Tamahere trained by Chad Brown headline a small but select field of six fillies and mares entered Wednesday for Saturday’s 33rd running of the $300,000 Coolmore Jenny Wiley (G1).

The Coolmore Jenny Wiley, run at 1 1/16 miles on the turf, will go as the 10th race on Saturday afternoon’s 11-race program with a 6:03 PM post time. First post time is 1:05 PM.

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Trained by Mike Stidham, Micheline closed 2020 with a victory in the Dueling Grounds Oaks at Kentucky Downs and then was runner-up in the Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup (G1) Presented by Dixiana here last fall. Her victory in the Hillsborough represented her first graded stakes victory.

Luis Saez will have the mount and break from post 1.

Brown will be going for his fourth consecutive victory (and fifth overall) in the Coolmore Jenny Wiley when he sends out both Etoile, owned by Peter Brant, Mrs. M.V. Magnier, and Mrs. Paul Shanahan, and Tamahere, owned by Swift Thoroughbreds, Madaket Stables, and Wonder Stables.

Etoile will be making her first start since winning the E. P. Taylor (G1) at Woodbine in October. A Group 3 winner in France before coming to North America, she will be ridden by Javier Castellano and break from post 4.

Tamahere, winner of the Sands Point (G2) in her U. S. debut in October, will be making her first start since finishing sixth in the Matriarch (G1) at Del Mar. Irad Ortiz Jr. has the mount and will break from post 2.

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Brown’s winners in the Coolmore Jenny Wiley are Ball Dancing (2015), Sistercharlie (2018), and Rushing Fall in 2019 and 2020.

The field for the Coolmore Jenny Wiley, with riders and weights from the rail, is: Micheline (Saez, 118 pounds), Tamahere (Irad Ortiz Jr., 118), Juliet Foxtrot (Tyler Gaffalione, 118), Etoile (Castellano, 120), Maxim Rate (Umberto Rispoli, 118), and La Signare (John Velazquez, 118).