Sheppard's Fugitive Angel Tops Strong Field of 11 3-Year-Old Fillies in Grade II Mrs. Revere

Nov 17, 2010 Gary Yunt

Augustin Stable’s Fugitive Angel, runaway winner of the Valley View (Grade III) at Keeneland on Oct. 22 in her most recent start, heads a field of 11 3-year-old fillies entered for Saturday’s 20th running of the $175,000-added Mrs. Revere (GII).

The Mrs. Revere, won last year by Mary’s Follies, will be run at 1 1/16 miles on the Matt Winn Turf Course and will go as the ninth race on Saturday’s 10-race program with an approximate post time of 4:37 p.m. (all times Eastern). First post time Saturday is 12:40 p.m.

Trained by Jonathan Sheppard, Fugitive Angel brings a four-race win streak into the Mrs. Revere. Jockey Rosie Napravnik has been aboard the daughter of Alphabet Soup for the past three triumphs, which include two in state-bred stakes races in Pennsylvania and the filly’s 3 ¾-length victory at Keeneland.  Napravnik has the Mrs. Revere mount on Fugitive Angel, who will break from post position six and carry top weight of 119 pounds.

Two other graded stakes winners are in the field: Lawrence Peifer’s Dade Babe and Barbara Hunter’s Snow Top Mountain.
    
Dade Babe, trained by Danny Miller, won the Pucker Up (GIII) in wire-to-wire fashion at Arlington Park on Sept. 6 and Snow Top Mountain, trained by Tom Proctor, was awarded the top prize in the Arlington Park Oaks (GIII) via disqualification in July.  The two fillies finished fourth and fifth, respectively, in Keeneland’s Queen Elizabeth Challenge Cup (GI) won by Harmonious.  Snow Top Mountain also was a closing runner-up to Check the Label in Belmont’s Sept. 18 Garden City (GI).

Another intriguing entrant is Flaxman Holdings Ltd.’s Aruna, who is unbeaten in two starts for trainer H. Graham Motion since her arrival in the United States from France.  Ramon Dominguez will ride the Mr. Greeley filly for Motion, who saddled Shared Interest for her upset win over defending champion Midday in the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf (GI) on Nov. 5 at Churchill Downs.

The field for the Mrs. Revere from the inside out is as follows: Ice Mist (Jesus Castanon, 117 pounds), Wild Mia (Freddie Lenclud, 117), La Cloche (Kent Desormeaux, 117), Gitchee Goomie (Alan Garcia, 117), Aruna (Dominguez, 117), Fugitive Angel (Napravnik, 119), Snow Top Mountain (Garrett Gomez, 117), In the Slips (Julien Leparoux, 117), Stars to Shine (Patrick Husbands, 117), Dade Babe (Florent Geroux, 117) and Quiet by Seven (Leandro Goncalves, 117).