The Ladys Secret Stakes

1 1/16 Miles Dirt Stake Purse $100.00 Fillies And Mares Three Years Old And Upward. At MTH

The Ladys Secret Stakes is an early three-year-old and upward race that shows it’s a good idea to enter three-year-olds against older this early as half the races have been won by three-year-olds. The first edition was won by Technology Sweep, owned by The Sidley Stud who return here with two to try to repeat, Lucky Artist and Brandy Crème. Last year’s winner was Confederate Warrior whose owner Paradise Stable returns looking for the double with Rosi, the only graded stakes winner in the race. Here’s the field:

Horse                                  Owner                               Odds  SRF

Nicolette                             Alydar Stables                   *3-1        94

Brandy Creme                    The Sidley Stud                  4-1        94

Delilahs Den                       Simmer Down Stable          5-1        89

Maiden Jane                       Winning Link Stables          9-2        94

Rosi                                    Paradise Stable                 10-1        92

Zero Rattle                          Bigchief Stables                  8-1        89

Chariots Of Angels             D J C Racing Stables         6-1        97

Lucky Artist                        The Sidley Stud                 10-1        91

Mann                                  Royalty Stables                 20-1        86

1  Lucky Artist                     The Sidley Stud                88

Lightly raced three-year-old Lucky Artist has been third three straight including in the $30.00 AZ Oaks at TUP. She is one of five or six deep closers in this race and like most of them having trouble with her timing.

2  Brandy Creme                The Sidley Stud                   94   

Brandy Crème has been closing well recently enough to be considered for hitting the board based on a series of deep close places. Her last out, the three-year-old was a closing for the first time against older in the $100.00 Serenas Song Stakes at MTH and she recently placed third in the in the $200.00 Busher at AQU.

3  Mann                       Royalty Stables                87

Very lightly raced Mann dropped back to six-furlongs to get her maiden win at PRX. Not much to tell here except her sharp owner and eye-catching works, including 1:36 4/5H mile work.

4   Chariots Of Angels                         Hunterman Stable                    97

Chariots Of Angels only occasionally shows up in stakes races such as this. Back in May 23, she won the $100.00 Allaire Distaff Stakes at PIM and repeated that win in 2025 when the purse had been raised to $125.00. Last year she ran fourth in the ’25 edition of this race and has been bringing home checks ever since that last Allaire Distaff. Her most recent was another front running effort that found her out into third in a pricy CD allowance.

5   Rosi                       Paradise Stable            92

Rosi is the classic deep closer problem horse with so many mistimed races that you almost expect her to be late for the race because she overslept. Out of 24 starts, she has only managed to win three, and of those only one graded stakes, but a classic deep close it was the Grade III Comely at AQU. It was such a spectacular run that Silky White has sent her ten more races out of the money trying to repeat it.

6   Nicolette                Alydar Stables                 94

Nicolette doesn’t win many races. But she can. She’s not inconsistent like many deep closers, she’s late on her timing. In a race with as many closers as this, it looks like a cattle call with Nicolette having the best credentials in the race for closing giving her the best chance coming down the lane,

7   Delilahs Den                       Simmer Down Stable                        89

Delilahs Den has been tackling tougher in Grade II company and, in fact, recently finished third in the Grade II Lukas Stakes at SA. For a four-year-old, she’s been quite busy racking up already 25 races with seven wins and nine seconds, a total of 19 in the money performances and is another deep closer dominant racer.

8   Maiden Jane                           Winning Link Stables                        96

Winning Link Stables picked up front runner Maiden Jane by way of claim from Night Rider Stables back in March for $32.00 and her new owners tried the Grade III Santa Maria Stakes at SA and she did not run her usual front running style and faded to seventh. Perhaps an instruction experiment there or just too soon for graded company. Prior to that claim, she had a string of six victories in allowance company, all at a mile.

9   Zero Rattle                             Bigchief Stables             89

Lightly raced six-year-old Zero Rattle made her first stakes try in the $100.00 Serenas Song Stakes at MTH last out and finished up the track. Prior to that it was an allowance win at FG in a string of in the money performances. I think Bigchief has faith in this one and is going to give her time to develop.

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