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In the midst of a banner year and with the Breeders' Cup just around the corner, Cherie DeVaux took the time to take a walk with the TDN through her Rice Road base at Keeneland in this episode of Down the Shedrow, presented by OBS Sales. While GI Kentucky Derby hero Golden Tempo and dual Grade I winner Englishman take center stage, DeVaux also introduces us to several trainees targeting undercard action on World Championships weekend. Plus, she shares next stops for her latest Keeneland winners and previews her stakes contenders running on closing Saturday of Keeneland's Fall Meet.

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00:04This is Englishman. I don't know if I have to give him any introduction. Come here, boo-boo.
00:09Come here. I know you're eating. You caught him at feed time. He's quite fun to have. Maxfield
00:16plays with his tongue and flips it around. He does the same thing when he's not worried about
00:20getting back to his feed. He's been great. Just can't really say anything. He shows it out there
00:27on the track. He is a gentleman, usually. Yes, I don't have anything. You're making my shirt
00:33all dirty. But he is pointing towards the Reader's Cup sprint. He's kind of funny where
00:39he, they kind of let him dawdle into the work where he's going about 25, almost 26. And
00:46then when he hits the eighth or the quarter pull and he switches his leads, he finishes
00:49with the big gallop out. And that's what everyone gets to see. But the first, the first quarter
00:54is always a lot slower, which is why the final time isn't rocket chip time. Again, he's just
00:58been really fun and it's kind of been fun how to manage him. Here we have Golden Tempo. Again,
01:07a horse without the need of an introduction. It's been a blessing to have him and can't say
01:15how grateful I am enough to have him. It's been fun watching him go from kind of a little
01:21pudge baby and evolve into the racehorse that he is now. He's always been super cute and
01:27fun. And when he's feeling really good, he'll give me a little nibble, but he likes to be
01:31scratched. Come here. Where's your spot? Oh, right there. Yeah. So we just try to give him
01:38something he likes before he gets what he wants and tries to bite me. But yeah, we're very excited
01:45about the Breeders' Cup Classic and really confident going into the race. This is Brilliant Birdie. He is
01:53on the also eligible for the Breeders' Cup Mile, but it looks like he's going to get in. So hopefully
02:00everything goes to plan. But he's five years old. He's been a really cool horse to train. Super good boy.
02:09Commentate who won earlier in the meet, we have pointed towards an allowance race at Churchill.
02:14A bit more ground at a mile, but it's a one turn mile. So hopefully he can put himself in
02:20a better
02:20position for Jose. Tan Hauser, who's an OBS grad, she's a filly that's come in and she's remarkably
02:29mature, physically super mature. She looks like an older mare and she acts like that around the barn.
02:36And she found herself great during the race, obviously, and put in that winning effort first time out.
02:41The plan for her is kind of TBD, probably run her back in an allowance race, but keeping all options
02:47open right now. We have Remember Mamba in the Bryant Station, kind of regrouped with him after Saratoga.
02:56Hindsight is 20-20. We thought he wanted to go longer, but neither race that he ran in Saratoga in
03:02their series was disappointing. We just were expecting a bit more from him. So we're going
03:07to regroup. He's won here at Keeneland a couple times and we're going to add blinkers on him,
03:12but he looks fantastic and he's been training really impressively. And then we have So Sandy,
03:18who's on the also eligible in the Fayette. He's a cult that has been a really fun horse, kind of
03:27in the same vein as Golden Temple, where he's gotten better as he's gotten older. And with racing,
03:32he came off the bench with a really impressive win this summer at Ellis, and then followed that up with
03:38an impressive second place finish at Churchill where he just missed at the wire. This one
03:47is named opposite. Her name is Harmoniously, but she is obviously a little temperamental.
03:54I know. She won her first time out. She's by life is good. And we have her slated to enter
04:03in
04:03an allowance race on one of the Breeders' Cup days. So that'll be our second start after her first win.
04:11Are you going to be a little bit nicer to everyone? No? Okay. Okay.
04:15This is Matrice. She's a curling filly, and we're hoping to get her entered in the maiden special
04:23weight on, again, Breeders' Cup day. She's been a really nice filly. She acts like she'll relish two
04:31turns, but super, super sweet. And yes, you are very sweet and probably will be better as she
04:40races and moves forward in her career. Yes, you are such a good girl.
04:45This is McCoy. McCoy is a Pennsylvania bred. He won his first race, first out at Parks on
04:55Pennsylvania Derby Day. They're going to run him in a stake here at Keeneland, but decided just to
05:02wait until the allowance race for him. That's also on Breeders' Cup weekend. He's a really good boy
05:10by Vekoma, and he has been training really well. He's another Corolin. His name is Highwaymen.
05:23We're hoping to get him started as well on Breeders' Cup weekend. It'll be his first start. He's a really
05:28nice colt. He's also by Curlin. Acts like two turns will be his better distance, but he's super sweet.
05:36He's been really impressive in all of his morning works. Been super, very straightforward.
05:42This is our barn pony, Bully. Come here. Come on. You gotta say hi if we're doing the barn tour.
05:47Come here. Bully was purchased for the maiden auction tag way back when, when those races first
05:54came out, and he made about $250,000, and now he's our barn mascot. He's super cute,
06:01and he's a little meatball. And then down here, this is Honor Is Mine. She's an unraced two-year-old
06:10Philly homebred of CRK Stables, and she's another one. Try to get her started in a maiden race here on
06:19Breeders' Cup weekend. Her half-brother is Common Tate, who won for us early in the meet.
06:26Hopefully when she runs, she's a little different and doesn't come from eight lengths behind everybody
06:31and just gets up in the wire. She seems a lot more forward. She's also been very impressive in all
06:36of
06:36her works. So she's, she's one that we're looking forward to, and we'll give the little endorsement
06:43that she's by Honor AP, who CRK campaigned. So I'm really looking forward to her. She's, you can see,
06:50she's super sweet and just a really nice filly to have around the barn. Yeah.

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