Onyx Ten to hunt hat trick in Safely Kept
Press Release
November 28, 2025
Frank Sample’s homebred Onyx Ten seeks her third consecutive victory when she starts in Saturday’s Safely Kept Stakes at Laurel Park.
Trained by Gary Capuano, the Maryland-bred daughter of Street Magician has won all four sprint attempts in 2025. Her only loss this season came when racing one mile in the Beyond the Wire Stakes on March 22. After that defeat, Capuano decided to give Onyx Ten a break, and that decision proved very wise.
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Returning from a 176-day break, Onyx Ten pressed the pace en route to a restricted allowance score at Delaware on Sept. 14. The following month, she rallied stoutly to beat older horses in the Shamrock Farm Maryland Million Distaff.
“She’s come back great,” Capuano said last week.
He entered Onyx Ten in last Saturday’s Willa On the Move Stakes, but opted to wait for the Safely Kept after drawing the rail post position against a field of older horses.
John Middleton’s Grayson’s Girl enters the Safely Kept following a closing victory in a state-restricted allowance at Laurel on Sept. 19 for leading trainer Brittany Russell.
Grayson’s Girl hit the board in both starts last year, then graduated by eight lengths in a maiden special weight for 3-year-old fillies on April 11. She cracked the top three in her four subsequent starts, including a runner-up effort in the restricted Miss Disco Stakes at Colonial Downs on July 12.
“She’s been knocking on the door for a while,” Russell said after the recent allowance victory. “She’s had some tough luck, tough trips, all that, but she’s just a tough, tough girl who loves her job and always shows up.”
Russell believes that the six-furlong distance might be Grayson Girl’s optimal trip.
“It’s funny because with her running style, you’d think she wants to go a route,” she explained. “But I think she’s a bit distance-limited. I think she’s a closing sprinter. She wants to settle and make a run.”
JR Ranch and My Racehorse’s Reputation is the 3-1 favorite on DeRosa’s morning line. Conditioned by Kentucky Derby-winning trainer Gustavo Delgado, Reputation ships up from her South Florida base after finishing third in Gulfstream’s Grade 3 Princess Rooney Stakes on Sept. 20. The $450,000 yearling purchase won her stakes debut two races back in Colonial’s Tyson Gilpin Stakes on Aug. 9.
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SAFELY KEPT STAKES ENTRIES
| PostPosition | Horse | Odds | Jockey | Trainer | Owner |
| 1 | Tap Dancin Cowgirl | 20-1 | Chiappe R | Stites Flint W | Steve & Debbie Jackson |
| 2 | Reputation | 3-1 | Ruiz J | Delgado Gustavo | JR Ranch and MyRacehorse |
| 3 | In My Memories | 30-1 | Torrealba J | Farrior Anthony | James C. Wolf |
| 4 | Onyx Ten | 4-1 | Hazlewood Y | Capuano Gary | Frank Sample |
| 5 | Conquerthosewecan | 8-1 | Russell S | Russell Brittany T | Sycamore Hall Thoroughbreds, LLC |
| 6 | Mega Mil | 9-2 | Pennington F | Servis John C | Main Line Racing Stable and Avalon Racin |
| 7 | Grayson’s Girl | 15-1 | Toledo J | Russell Brittany T | John Middleton |
| 8 | Zip Start | 5-1 | Bocachica A | Runco Jeff C | Coleswood Farm, Inc. and Raim, David |
| 9 | Think Fast | 12-1 | Rocco J S Jr | McMahon Hugh I | Clay Stables |
| 10 | Passage East | 8-1 | Rocco J S Jr | McMahon Hugh I | Larry E. Rabold |
| 11 | Late Nite Call | 30-1 | Burnham M | Saville Niall | Richard E. Harris |
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