MULTIPLE STAKES WINNER BIPARTISANSHIP SHIPS IN FROM EAST COAST FOR ELLIS PARK TURF STAKES

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MULTIPLE STAKES WINNER BIPARTISANSHIP SHIPS IN FROM EAST COAST FOR ELLIS PARK TURF STAKES

HENDERSON, Ky. (Sunday, Aug. 20, 2023) – As One Racing, CMNWLTH and Edgar Harty’s multiple stakes winner Bipartisanship is set to ship to Ellis Park for trainer Graham Motion and face 10 rivals that entered Sunday’s 19th running of the $125,000 Ellis Park Turf Stakes.

    The 1 1/16-mile Ellis Park Turf Stakes is the featured contest on Closing Day of the meet. First post is 11:45 a.m. (all times Central) and the Ellis Park Turf Stakes will go as Race 8 at 4:22 p.m.

    Sunday’s nine-race Closing Day program will feature mandatory payouts in all wagers. Fans will also be able to enjoy another KY HBPA Dollar Day and chow on $1 hot dogs with Ellis Park’s famous relish and sip on $1 soft drinks and $2 beer. 

    The Ellis Park Turf Stakes features a well-matched field of fillies and mares including Bipartisanship (GB), who’s won three stakes events in her 18-race career. Based at Fair Hill Training Center in Maryland, Bipartisanship recently finished fourth in the Matchmaker Stakes (GIII) at Monmouth. Bipartisanship’s lone victory of 2023 was in the PTHA President’s Cup Stakes at Parx. Her resume also includes stakes victories in last year’s Kathryn Crosby Stakes at Del Mar and the 2021 Tropical Park Oaks at Gulfstream Park. Jockey Chris Landeros will be in the irons from post No. 2.

    Another accomplished mare that entered the Ellis Park Turf Stakes is Stephen Screnci’s Grade III winner Kate’s Kingdom. Trained by Will Walden, Kate’s Kingdom ended her 4-year-old campaign on a two-race win streak with victories over the Tapeta surface in the Ontario Matron Stakes (GIII) at Woodbine and in the My Charmer Stakes at Turfway Park. Kate’s Kingdom will be reunited with Jack Gilligan from post 9.

    Gentry Farm’s Lovely Princess will attempt score her first stakes victory in the Ellis Park Turf Stakes. Trained by Kenny McPeek, Lovely Princess nearly found the winner’s circle in her last two starts but just missed in the Indiana General Assembly Distaff and the Keertana Stakes. Jockey Brian Hernandez Jr. will pilot Lovely Princess from post 5.

    Here is the full field for the Ellis Park Turf Stakes in order of post positions (with jockey and trainer):

1. Sahlabiya (Adam Beschizza, Brendan Walsh) 
2. Bipartisanship (Landeros, Motion) 
3. Mouffy (Manny Esquivel, Jonathan Thomas) 
4. Wave of Goodness (Mitchell Murrill, Armando Hernandez) 
5. Lovely Princess (Hernandez, McPeek) 
6. Tasweya (Declan Cannon, Brendan Walsh) 
7. Arm Candy (Rafael Bejarano, Brendan Walsh)  
8. Misread (Edgar Morales, Tom Drury Jr.) 
9. Kate’s Kingdom (Gilligan, Walden) 
10. Dealing Justice (Martin Garcia, Riley Mott) 
11. Juncture (GB) (Gerardo Corrales, Brad Cox) 

    For more information about Ellis Park, visit www.ellisparkracing.com.  

ABOUT ELLIS PARK RACING & GAMING
Ellis Park, Racking and Gaming (“Ellis Park”) located north of the Ohio River and just south of Evansville, Indiana, has been the home of summer Thoroughbred racing in Kentucky for over 100 years. Ellis Park also features a gaming entertainment venue with approximately 300 historical racing machines.

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