2008 Keeneland Week 3

The $125,000 Doubledogdare Stakes (G3) on Friday featured older fillies and mares going 1 1/16 miles on the main track. Carriage Trail battled for the lead with Marquee Delivery through slow fractions of 25.27 and 49.04. On the far turn, Marquee Delivery dropped back as Carriage Trail opened up a 1 1/2 length lead into the stretch. Say You Will put in a mild bid late but was no match for Carriage Trail, who cruised to a 1 1/4 length victory in gate-to-wire style in 1:42.51. It was just 1/2 a length back to Indescribable third, while favorite Panty Raid, who stalked the pacesetters early, tired badly in the stretch and finished last.

Winning jockey Kent Desormeaux said, "This filly started running about the mile pole. It wasn't that much of a theft from there; she had to be a racehorse. She put them away and regained the lead. When you see us quickening in the replay at the 1/2 mile pole, she actually was able to get a second breather. When she cornered for home, she just took flight and started reaching for the wire."
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