It wasn’t Sheldon Russell’s weekend. Until suddenly it was.
Russell, the veteran jockey, went to Keeneland to ride the three-year-old filly Maida for his wife, trainer Brittany Russell. But that runner was a step slow leaving the gate and could rally only mildly into sixth in the Grade 2 Raven Run. Which was better than the 10th-place finish his other Keeneland mount, The Minkster, managed in an earlier allowance…