La Rascasse wins Monomoy Girl Stakes in record time at Churchill Downs
La Rascasse won her stakes debut in 1:43.13, lowering the Monomoy Girl mark and looking like more than a promising filly in a seven-horse field.
La Rascasse did not just win her stakes debut at Churchill Downs. She ran fast enough to put her name next to a record, and she did it with the kind of trip that suggests there may be even more in the tank. The 3-year-old filly won the $175,000 Monomoy Girl Overnight Stakes by 2 1/4 lengths in 1:43.13 for 1 1/16 miles, shaving four-hundredths of a second off the previous mark and announcing herself as a serious summer player.
The race unfolded with real pace pressure, and La Rascasse handled it like a filly already learning how to win. Knickleandime went to the front through fractions of :23.42 and :47.46, with La Rascasse tracking in second before Axel Concepcion asked her to move midway through the final turn after six furlongs in 1:11.46. Once Concepcion let her go, she quickened away from the field, turned back Point of Reference in the lane and left A.P.’s Girl to finish third, a half-length behind the runner-up. Even-money favorite Percy’s Bar, who looked like the class of the field on paper, never found the right pace flow and checked in fifth in the seven-horse field.
That matters because La Rascasse did not win on raw speed alone. She won by showing balance, patience and a turn of foot, the sort of profile that makes a filly dangerous beyond a single lucky setup. The daughter of Authentic, out of the Candy Ride mare Hallawallah, was making just her second career start after a maiden win at Keeneland in April. Bred in Kentucky by Bill Klisit and purchased for $750,000 at the 2023 Keeneland September Yearling Sale, she now has two wins from two starts and $168,183 in earnings after collecting $105,950 here.
Concepcion said she showed “a lot of maturity for her age,” while Will Walden said she “sort of inherited the lead around the turn” and still had room to improve. That is the part worth watching. La Rascasse already owns a stakes record, but the better news for Resolute Racing is that the record may only be the beginning of the climb.
Resolute got a second big result on the same Saturday when Dona Clota won the Grade 3 Robert G. Dick Memorial at Delaware Park, giving John Stewart’s stable a banner day. If La Rascasse takes another step, the Monomoy Girl score could look less like a nice stakes win and more like the first sign of an elite filly coming into focus.
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