Take Charge Brandi’s owner eyes Rebel Stakes

Hot Springs, AR (SportsNetwork.com) – Willis Horton is eyeing a start for his champion filly Take Charge Brandi versus the boys in the $750,000 Rebel Stakes on Saturday, March 14.

Take Charge Brandi, trained by Hall of Famer D. Wayne Lukas, has been pointed toward Oaklawn Park’s Honeybee Stakes on March 7 after opening the season with a head victory in the track’s Martha Washington Stakes.

Horton had speculated following the win that she might run in the Arkansas Derby and Kentucky Derby.

“I guess we’re going to have to look at it and see,” Horton said. “I haven’t completely made up my mind yet, but I would like to run in the Rebel. That’s exactly where I’d like to.”

Take Charge Brandi, ridden for the first time by Jon Court, was the 2-5 favorite in the Martha Washington and held off Sarah Sis to win the mile race to begin her 3-year-old campaign.

Take Charge Brandi broke her maiden in her debut at Churchill Downs last June. She was second at Saratoga in the Schuylerville and fifth in the Adirondack Stakes. The filly followed with a fifth in the Pocahontas at Churchill and was eighth in Keeneland’s Alcibiades. She won the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies at Santa Anita as a 61-1 longshot.

The Eclipse Award winner won the Starlet Stakes at Los Alamitos on Dec. 13 to finish her 2014 season. That victory came just three weeks after capturing the Delta Downs Princess Stakes on Nov. 22.

The filly has won five of nine starts for $1,680,126.

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