KESWICK WINNER JUST PHILTORED TAKES PERFECT RECORD TO TURF IN SATURDAY’S $125,000 DOLLEY MADISON
Posted on August 18th, 2025
Photo Caption: Just Philtored holds off Slewperstitus to win the Keswick Stakes on Aug. 2, 2025 at Colonial Downs (Credit: Coady Media)
Photo Caption: Inside finish photo — Just Philtored holds off Slewperstitus to win the Keswick Stakes on Aug. 2, 2025 at Colonial Downs (Credit: Coady Media)
Photo Caption: Slewpertitus (#11) wins the first race of the 2025 season at Colonial Downs on July 9 (Credit: Coady Media)
NEW KENT, Va. (Aug. 18, 2025) – Six fillies have entered to challenge Just Philtored as the Keswick Stakes winner makes her turf debut in Saturday’s $125,000 Dolley Madison Stakes at Colonial Downs. The race is one of two sibling stakes for Virginia-bred, -sired or -certified 2-year-olds going 5½ furlongs on turf.
A field of eight is set for the $125,000 Jamestown Stakes, led by Slewperstitus, the Keswick runner-up and lone filly in the field. She is cross-entered in the Dolley Madison.
The Dolley Madison is slated as Race 3, immediately followed by the Jamestown. First post for Saturday’s nine-race card is 12:30 p.m. ET
Purchased privately after an impressive debut win, Just Philtored was transferred to trainer Mike Trombetta’s barn with the Keswick circled as the target. Game throughout but needing every inch to hold off Slewperstitus, the Virginia-certified filly remains unbeaten in two starts. For her first turf try, Just Philtored was installed as the 6-5 morning line favorite. She drew post 3 and will reunite with jockey Mychel Sanchez.
Eric Rizer’s Slewperstitus ran a winning race but fell a neck short in the Keswick. Trained by Robert Bailes, her connections may try to turn the tables on Just Philtored in the Dolley Madison or opt for the Jamestown, where the Great Notion filly is cross-entered and would face males as the 6-5 morning line favorite.
In either spot, Slewperstitus’ top rival will be a Trombetta trainee, as the meet’s leading trainer also sends out Doubting Thomas in the Jamestown. The homebred Caravaggio colt, an impressive debut winner for the Estate of Larry Johnson, is a half sibling to graded stakes winner Spun Glass.
Here is the complete field for the $125,000 Dolley Madison Stakes from the rail out with jockey, trainer and morning line odds: Karina Anna (Gavin Ashton, Arch Kingsley Jr., 5-1); Union Fox (Jorge Ruiz, Orlando Rose, 15-1); Just Philtored (Sanchez, Trombetta, 6-5); Slewperstitus (J.G. Torrealba, Bailes, 2-1); Hark Theangelssing (Ismerio Villalobos, Trombetta, 4-1); Ballykeefe (Jean Gregor Briceno, Kevin Boniface, 50-1); Courageous Diane (Joseph Trejos, Jose Juan Vazquez, 50-1).
Here is the complete field for the $125,000 Jamestown Stakes from the rail out with jockey, trainer and morning line odds: Slewperstitus (Torrealba, Bailes, 6-5); Doubting Thomas (Ruiz, Trombetta, 5-2); Randy Said So (Horacio Karamanos, Gary Williams, Jr., 20-1 ); State Conceal (Ashton, Carlos Munoz, 20-1); Sometime (Sanchez, Mark Simms, Jr., 6-1); Karate Island (Jevian Toledo, Brittany Russell, 9-2); Birdy Whisper (Johan Rosado, Munoz, 30-1); Feisty Notion (Antonio Gallardo, Williams, Jr., 12-1).
The second annual Wiener Dog Racing event at Colonial Downs also takes place Saturday. The dachshund heats are scheduled between the Thoroughbred races starting right after Race 2 with heats scheduled through right after Race 5 and the Final right after Race 6. General admission is $5, and kids 5 and younger get in free. The event is open to all ages, and Saturday’s festivities will include a petting zoo, pony rides, a face painter, and other family-friendly activities.
Tickets for the entire meet can be purchased online at www.colonialdowns.com. Colonial’s races will be prominently featured on FanDuel TV all season long.
About Colonial Downs
Colonial Downs Racetrack, in New Kent, Virginia, hosts live thoroughbred racing on two nationally renowned surfaces – the Secretariat Turf Course, the widest turf course in North America at 180 feet wide and on a 1 1/4-mile dirt track. The Colonial Downs Group, which is owned by Churchill Downs Incorporated (NASDAQ Global Select Market: CHDN), also operates Rosie’s Gaming Emporiums® throughout the commonwealth, which offer innovative historic horseracing (HHR) gaming and full card simulcasting as well as Rosie’s Game Room in Collinsville, and The Rose Gaming Resort® in Dumfries which offers 1,650 HHR gaming terminals, full-card simulcasting, eight bars and restaurants and more than 100 hotel rooms.
