Exotics Plays for the Jenny Wiley Stakes

An accomplished field of 10 fillies and mares will vie in Saturday’s $650,000 Jenny Wiley (G1) at Keeneland. I do like reigning Queen Elizabeth II (G1) starlet and morning-line choice #7 Lush Lips (5-2) in her second run of the season, but I also have interest in some longshots that could spice up the exotics in the grassy affair, too. 

Jenny Wiley Exotics

• $1 trifecta 7 with 2,6,10 with all ($24)
• $.50-cent trifecta 7 with all with 2,6,10 ($12)
• $.20-cent superfecta 7 with 2,6,10 with 2,6,10 with all ($8.40)
• $.20-cent superfecta 7 with 2,6,10 with all with 2,6,10 ($8.40)

Trained by Brendan Walsh, Lush Lips has come home first or second in nine straight since arriving in this barn and showed that she has a nose for the wire with a well-timed win in the Honey Fox (G3) at Gulfstream Park in her 2026 unveiling. By Ten Sovereigns, the four-year-old earned the biggest win in her career in her lone local outing and will move forward second off the shelf. The $3.7 million November purchase has good gate presence in a field lacking pace, and she will get first run on the deep-closing types with regular rider Gaffalione on board. 

#6 Deep Satin (20-1) is a consistent runner who could reach new heights as a five-year-old for trainer Cherie DeVaux. The daughter of American Pharoah missed by just a half-length in the First Lady (G1) on the course in the fall, and while she disappointed at Del Mar in her 2025 finale, the mare has worked well in the interim and has proven to be capable of running well off the layoff. Brian Hernandez, Jr. will guide the top-three contender. 

#2 Fast Market (30-1) might be something of a stretch in the affair, but the Terranova pupil showed marked improvement since having the blinkers removed last season and concluded her sophomore season with a facile win in the Pebbles (G3) at Aqueduct. The bay daughter of Volatile will need a career-topping performance to challenge late in the excellent group, but I feel that she could be up to the task at a huge price beneath Samuel Marin. 

Of the two Grade 1 winners in the field for Chad Brown, I will give a slight nod to #10 Segesta (7-2) from the outside post. The Juddmonte homebred missed by a neck when second best in the First Lady here in October and was last seen dominating her foes in the Matriarch (G1) at Del Mar in November. She is relatively lightly raced with room to improve, and the daughter of Ghostzapper figures to receive a nice trip while in the second flight and in the clear from the early stages of the tilt under Flavien Prat.