Shirl's Speight Favored in Turf Classic

Shirl's Speight | Michael Burns

Shirl's Speight (Speightstown) is the 3-1 morning-line favorite in the GI Old Forester Bourbon Turf Classic S. at Churchill Downs Saturday. The Charles Fipke homebred, saddled by Roger Attfield, gets an extra furlong to work with after a dramatic late-running victory in the GI Maker's Mark Mile at Keeneland last time out Apr. 15. The lightly raced 'TDN Rising Star', who will be making his first start at Churchill Downs, won the 2020 GIII Marine S. over the all-weather at Woodbine and captured the GIII Tampa Bay S. over the lawn in Florida Feb. 5 before his top-level score in the Maker's Mark.

Tribhuvan (Fr) (Toronado {Ire}), a front-running victor of the 1 3/8-mile GI United Nations S. at Monmouth Park last summer, cuts back in distance and makes his first start since tiring to 13th after setting the pace in the Nov. 6 GI Breeders' Cup Turf.

Adhamo (Ire) (Intello {Ger}), a group winner in France last spring, closed from well out of it in his stateside debut to miss by just a head when second behind the reopposing Cavalry Charge (Honor Code) in the Feb. 19 GIII Fair Grounds S. last time out.

Cavalry Charge returned with a third-place finish in the Mar. 26 GII Muniz Memorial Classic S. last time out.

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