Having won six times from her 11 starts during a busy 2017 campaign, Divine Miss Grey (Divine Park) goes in search of her 12th career victory in her 10th appearance of 2018 as the 122-pound highweight in Thursday's GII Falls City H. at Churchill Downs.
Prohibitively favored at 3-5 while giving her eight rivals between three and eight pounds, the chestnut was far too classy for her rivals in an off-turf and sloppy renewal of the Dr. James Penny Memorial S. at Parx Sept. 8, then ran with credit when runner-up to Wow Cat (Chi) (Lookin At Lucky) in the GI Beldame S. at Belmont Park Oct. 6. While the latter returned to round out the exacta underneath likely champion Monomoy Girl (Tapizar) in the GI Breeders' Cup Distaff, Divine Miss Grey passed that test favor of the GII Chilukki S. and she closed the Breeders' Cup Saturday program with a workmanlike success.
Second and one spot ahead of Divine Miss Grey in the GIII Molly Pitcher S. at Monmouth Park in July, Dream Call (Midnight Lute) was a distant fourth in the restricted Royal Delta S. in the Belmont slop Sept. 9 and gets class relief here off a never-nearer seventh in the Beldame.
Prado's Sweet Ride (Fort Prado) has longshot exotics claims, as she won the Illini Princess H. against her fellow state-breds by better than 13 lengths last season and earned a career-best dirt Beyer of 89 when second against the boys in the Milwaukee Avenue H. on seasonal debut at Hawthorne this past April.
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