Jace's Road, Fun and Feisty Lead Stakes at Churchill

Albaugh Family Stables and West Point Thoroughbreds' Jace's Road, an impressive debut winner and recent third-place finisher in the $300,000 Iroquois Stakes (G3), tops a competitive field of 11 colts that were entered in the featured 10th running of the $200,000 Street Sense Stakes (G3) as part of "Stars of Tomorrow I" Oct. 30 at Churchill Downs. Sunday's opening day of the 19-day Fall Meet stand will get underway at 1 p.m. ET and showcase all 2-year-old races. The 11-race program also features the $200,000 Rags to Riches Stakes for 2-year-old fillies, which, like the Street Sense, is at 1 1/16 miles on the main track. Inaugurated in 2005, Churchill Downs' Stars of Tomorrow programs have helped launch the careers of numerous graded stakes winners, including more than 50 grade 1 winners. Jace's Road won his career debut at Ellis Park by 6 1/4 lengths for trainer Brad Cox. He returned in the Iroquois where he was defeated 1 1/2 lengths by FanDuel Breeders' Cup Juvenile Presented by Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance (G1) prospect Curly Jack and 54-1 longshot and fellow Street Sense rival Honed. Since the Iroquois, Jace's Road has worked four times at Churchill Downs with Florent Geroux in the saddle. Jace's Road's co-owner, Albaugh Family Stables, won last year's Street Sense with the Dale Romans-trained Howling Time. Geroux will have the mount on Jace's Road in the 1 1/16-mile Street Sense, and the duo will break from post 3. There were 10 rivals that entered to face Jace's Road in the Street Sense, including With Anticipation Stakes (G3T) winner Boppy O, Ellis Park Juvenile winner Top Recruit and Shakopee Juvenile winner Two Phil's. Pocahontas Winner Fun and Feisty Aims to Rebound in Rags to Riches Lucky Seven Stable's Fun and Feisty, the 3 1/2-length winner of last month's $297,536 Pocahontas Stakes (G3), headlines a field of eight fillies entered in the Rags to Riches. Fun and Feisty attempted to parlay her Pocahontas victory to grade 1 glory three weeks later in the Darley Alcibiades (G1) at Keeneland but finished a disappointing eighth. Fun and Feisty began her career July 4 at Churchill Downs where she had a troubled sixth-place effort in a maiden special weight contest. Two starts later, the Midshipman filly broke her maiden by three lengths on Arlington Million Day at Churchill Downs. The Pocahontas was Fun and Feisty's first two-turn test for trainer Kenny McPeek. She'll attempt her third-career victory in the Rags to Riches with jockey Brian Hernandez Jr. in the saddle and break from post 7. Chief among Fun and Feisty's rivals in the Rags to Riches is Gold Standard Racing Stable's eye-catching maiden special weight winner Hoosier Philly. Trained by Tom Amoss, Hoosier Philly was pre-entered in the $2 million NetJets Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) but was not selected into the body of the race and would need defections to start. Ready Made Racing's undefeated T Max will attempt to go to 3-for-3 in the Rags to Riches for trainer Will Walden.