Finger Lakes hosts juvenile sprint stakes Monday and Tuesday

The upcoming live thoroughbred racing week at Finger Lakes features the final two stakes races of the 2023 season. The $40,000 Shesastonecoldfox Stakes for 2-year-old fillies is set as the feature on Monday and the $40,000 Tin Cup Chalice Stakes for 2-year-old colts and geldings will be the main event on Tuesday. Both juvenile races will be contested at a distance of six furlongs.

Sweet Brown Sugar is the morning line favorite for the Shesastonecoldfox Stakes. The 8-5 program choice broke her maiden in her debut race on October 18. The Paul Barrow trainee scored the convincing 6 3/4-length triumph under jockey Jeremias Flores. She will again be under the direction of Flores in the fourth race.

Enticing Prospect is the 2-1 lukewarm favorite to win the Tin Cup Chalice Stakes. The talented colt won his debut at Finger Lakes on September 27. He has not raced since the two and one-quarter length victory, but his morning exercises are notably quick. The two most recent workouts have been published with bullets.

The bay gelding will be ridden by jockey Keiber Coa in Tuesday’s 5th race for trainer M. Anthony Ferraro.

Benji Brown is another entrant in the annual stakes who was successful while competing for the first time. The Kathleen Babcock-trainee was dismissed by the betting public at odds of 10-1, but achieved a gate-to-wire score at Finger Lakes on October 18.

The bay colt is out of Miss Rubycubes who won the $75,000 New York Oaks at Finger Lakes in 2013 for Babcock and David Brown.

Benji Brown will again be an outsider with early odds of 8-1. He will be under the direction of jockey Jaqueline Davis.

The Shesastonecoldfox stakes is named after the talented filly owned by Langpap Stables that won three stakes as a 2-year-old in 2001. The M. Anthony Ferraro-trainee also became the first Finger Lakes-based horse to run in a Breeders’ Cup race.

Tin Cup Chalice became the first and only 3-year-old ever to sweep all three legs of the Big Apple Triple. The feat, which included the $150,000 New York Derby at Finger Lakes, was accomplished in 2008. The bay New York-bred owned by Scott Van Laer and trainer Michael LeCesse also won the $500,000 Indiana Derby (G2) at Hoosier Park under jockey Pedro Rodriguez.