Juddmonte’s Kentucky homebred Segesta hit the finish together with Expensive Queen (IRE) to produce a dead heat in the 38th running of the $650,000 Jenny Wiley S. (G1) at Keeneland on April 11. It was the sixth stakes dead heat in Keeneland history and second in a Grade 1. The other came in the 2014 Ashland S. (G1) with Room Service and Rosaline.
Aussie Girl (IRE) led the Jenny Wiley field through early fractions of :23.10, :47.46, and 1:11.48 while Segesta tracked from second. Segesta put the pressure on Aussie Girl at the top of the stretch and moved to the front at the three-sixteenths pole. She inched clear of Medoro at the sixteenth pole but was joined late by Expensive Queen. The two hit the wire together, stopping the clock in 1:40.98 for the 1 1/16-mile turf affair. Flavien Prat rode Segesta for trainer Chad Brown.
“She looked a winner until about the sixteenth pole,” said Juddmonte’s Garrett O’Rourke. “Flavien said he went to the outside to engage a filly and then the other filly (Expensive Queen) came up the inside. I’m delighted for the filly. She’s very deserving of it.”
Segesta is a 5-year-old Kentucky-bred daughter of Ghostzapper out of the First Defence mare Antonoe. Now a two-time Grade 1 winner, Segesta improved her overall record to 12-5-4-0 with earnings of $1,446,781. Segesta won the 2025 Matriarch S. (G1) at Del Mar.