Flippant is turning into a serious racehorse. The 3-year-old filly won her third race in a row and second straight stakes when she rallied powerfully from the rear of the field and captured the $150,000 Virginia Oaks by 1 1/4 lengths. The second foal to race out of the multiple Grade 2-winning dirt route horse Frivolous, Flippant won a maiden race over 1 1/4 miles at Ellis Park in July and proved best racing 1 1/16 miles last month in the Dueling Grounds Oaks Preview, also at Ellis. By Tapit, the G. Watts Humphrey homebred ran her best race to date late Tuesday afternoon for trainer Vicki Oliver. As Por Que No dueled with Belle Belisa through a demanding half-mile in 46.35 seconds, Rafael Bejarano had Flippant ahead of only Zeyaraat in this field of 12. “When the race started, I just tried to get her relaxed. She has a really good turn of foot when you get her relaxed. By the three-eighths pole, I was a little trapped inside,” Bejarano said. :: Bet the races with confidence on DRF Bets. You're one click away from the only top-rated betting platform fully integrated with exclusive data, analysis, and expert picks. Indeed, Flippant still was stuck at the tail of the field, locked behind horses, early on the far turn, but Bejarano came between rivals past the three-furlong marker and steered outside and into the clear in upper stretch. Flippant saw daylight and lit out for the wire, passing eight horses in the final three-sixteenths to earn a second stakes win. Flippant, who took a flurry of late action, paid $6.60 to win as the favorite. Invincible Gal got a very good trip but was outkicked by the winner, settling for second as Gold for Kitten ran third. Flippant stopped the timer in 1:46.47 for 1 1/8 miles over a firm outer turf course, a time that would be a course record, beating the 1:46.58 recorded by Film Maker in 2006. Some fast turf times, course records as posted, from the Aug. 24 Colonial card subsequently were changed to slower clockings. Old Nelson: Tuned goes last to first Tuned broke awkwardly and got stuck racing last behind what appeared to be a slow pace in the $150,000 Old Nelson Stakes. Didn’t matter. Jockey Jose Ortiz sat chilly until turning for home, wheeled his mount to the far outside, and Tuned really turned it on. Going last to first in three-sixteenths of a mile, Tuned was up by a neck for the first stakes win of her career. Market Rumor finished second by a neck with Our Baby Ruth a head farther back in third, but it was Tuned who looked like a sure winner once Ortiz got her rolling. Tuned paid $5.40 and ran 1 1/16 miles on the firm inner turf in 1:41 in a race where fractions weren’t recorded. Graham Motion trains Tuned for Al Shaqab Racing, and Tuned has had a good run at Colonial, winning a second-level allowance race in advance of her Old Nelson triumph. Five-year-old Tuned, an English-bred French import, is by Toronado and is the third foal to race out of the Green Tune mare, Zagora, winner of the 2012 Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf. Epic Luck, Trust Our Journey wire stakes Epic Luck and Trust Our Journey both went wire to wire in the pair of $100,000 stakes for 2-year-olds on the card. Epic Luck set a walking tempo in the 1 1/16-mile Kitten’s Joy, going his first half-mile, uncontested, in 49.73 over a quick-playing course. Jockey Colby Hernandez on Gold Heritage saw and felt Epic Luck’s tactical edge and early on the far turn urged his mount to reach a contending position, but Epic Luck and jockey Aubrie Geen had too much left in the homestretch, holding firm for a 2 1/4-length win. Epic Luck was timed in 1:43.74 over the firm outer turf course and paid $17.40. Lynn Ashby trains Epic Luck for the colt’s breeders, Mark Ashby and William Gotwals. A Pennsylvania-bred, Epic Luck is by Madefromlucky out of A Dicey Dame, by Colonel John. In the 5 1/2-furlong Rosie’s, Trust Our Journey and jockey Julien Pimentel outsprinted the other pace players and had just enough to hold off Tejano Twist, whose stretch rally fell short by a neck. Wish Me finished third while 3-2 favorite Big Boss Ben was last. Trust Our Journey, a distant second last out at Monmouth to the talented filly Her World, was timed in 1:02.80 over the outer turf in another race where fractions weren’t recorded. Carlos David trains Trust Our Journey, a son of American Pharoah and the A.P. Warrior mare Tribal Music, for Palm Beach Racing. He paid $6.60.