BY BROCK SHERIDAN 

Twice second in two previous tries in stakes company, Florida-bred As Catch Can again takes on black-type company in the $300,000 Bourbonette at Turfway Park Saturday. As Catch Can will go a mile-and-sixteenth on the synthetic main track in an overflow field of 14 sophomore fillies, including two on the also-eligible list.

Trained by Jonathan Thomas for Augustin Stable, the nom de course of George Strawbridge Jr. of Cochran, Pa., As Catch Can was most recently second on the Santa Anita turf on Feb. 9 in the $102,000 Sweet Life. She raced just off the pace in the six-and-a-half-furlong contest on the downhill course, but her late run came up a length-and-three-quarter shy of winner Casalu.

As Catch Can may benefit from switching back to an all-weather surface as in her last start of 2024, she won a first level, $75,000 optional claiming going a mile-and-70-yards on the synthetic main track at Woodbine on Dec. 5. She was also a neck shy of winner and Bourbonette-rival Somethinboutther in the Grade 3 Mazarine going a mile-and-a-sixteenth on the same track on Nov. 3.

 

By Mo Town out of the Justin Philip mare Just a Catch, As Catch Can has won two with two seconds and a third in seven starts while earning $126,295. She was bred in Florida by Loren Nichols.

She is a graduate of Jimbo and Torie Gladwell’s Top line Sales and Ocala Breeders’ Sales, having sold to Donato Lanni as agent for $210,000 out of the 2024 Spring Sale.
(As Catch Can’s Under Tack Video)

Frankie Dettori will ride the dark bay filly for the first time and they have drawn post seven. As Catch Can is 6-1 on the morning line.

 

Favored at 3-1 in the program is White Rocks, a length-and-a-half winner of the $175,000 Cincinnati Trophy going a mile at Turfway in her last race on Feb. 21. The gray or roan daughter of Frosted has won her last two after winning a one-mile maiden special weight at Turfway on Jan. 16 in her second career starts. She was third on debut gong a mile at Turfway on Dec. 12.

White Rocks has earned $166,354 for owners Jastar Capital Ltd, Polivka Equine Holdings LLC and Timothy Madden and will be ridden from post 11 by Victor Carrasco.

Claiborne Farm’s Admit resumes a short rivalry wth White Rocks in the Bourbonette after she was second in the Cincinnati Trophy for trainer Thomas Drury. 

Two starts back on Dec. 12, she won a one-mile maiden special weight, defeating White Rocks in third, before winning a first level, $62,500 optional claiming at the same distance on Jan. 26.

Admit is 9-2 on the morning line and looks to add to her $133,080 in revenues from two wins with a second and a third in five starts.

She will be ridden by Irving Moncada from three.

Somethinabouther makes her third start on synthetic for trainer Brendan Walsh after finishing third in the Cincinnati and winning the previously mention Mezzarine at Woodbine.

The bay daughter of Mendelssohn has won two of six career starts with while banking $138,913 for owners X-Men Racing IV, Madaket Stables LLC and SF Racing LLC. 

She has won two with two thirds in six starts with earnings of $138,913.

Declan Cannon will ride Somethingbouther from post two and they are 5-1 on the morning line.

Rounding out the field ar Resolve and Umberto Rispoli, Zealous Moon with Jaime Torres aboard, John Velazquez has the mount on Bless the Broken, Juan Hernanzes will be in the saddle for Getting After It, Golden Sunshine has Vincent Cheminaud taking the call, Fixen to Bee and rider Corey Lanerie, Gabriel Saez will be guiding Just Ruthless and Gerardo Corrales has accepted the mount on Will Then.

Bracelet and Classic Appeal are on the also-eligible list.

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