LEXINGTON, Ky. – Bobby’s Wicked One was a promising runner at ages 2 and 3, placing in a pair of stakes and finishing fifth late last year in the Grade 1 Malibu. But as a 4-year-old, he has been downright uncatchable. Racing Saturday against a stacked field in the Grade 3, $250,000 Commonwealth at Keeneland on the Blue Grass undercard, Bobby’s Wicked One improved his seasonal record to 3 for 3 by leading throughout. Hustled away from the starting gate and angled to the inside by jockey Miguel Mena, Bobby’s Wicked One was able to set a relatively soft pace with early fractions of 22.88 and 46.30 seconds in the seven-furlong Commonwealth. This left him with plenty left for the stretch run, and it showed in the closing stages, with Bobby’s Wicked One turning back runner-up Warrior’s Club, last year’s Commonwealth winner, for a 1 1/4-length triumph. He finished seven furlongs in 1:22.80. “We backed it up,” winning rider Miguel Mena said of the pace. “We were comfortable, going nice.” The Commonwealth provided Bobby’s Wicked One ($28.20), a son of Speightstown owned by Robert Guidry’s Autumn Hill Farms, with his first stakes victory. Earlier this year, he won a couple of six-furlong allowances at Fair Grounds in quick time. “I’ve never had a horse get in such good form as he’s been in his last two races,” trainer Al Stall said. “He won those two races down there in 1:09 and change, and he was literally jogging, so we came to this race with a ton of confidence.” The Commonwealth gave Mena his first graded stakes win since he won the Risen Star in February 2018 at Fair Grounds aboard Bravazo. He was sidelined for more than seven months in 2018 after breaking his right ankle in a spill at Fair Grounds last March. The jockey excitedly raised his arm in triumph after Bobby’s Wicked One crossed the wire in front. In celebration of DRF's 125th anniversary, you can pick up a copy of the print edition for just $5 at Keeneland and Lexington-area locations Stall said Bobby’s Wicked One could return in the $500,000 Churchill Downs, a race upgraded to a Grade 1 for 2019, on Kentucky Derby Day, May 4. If so, he would likely face some of the foes he defeated Saturday, including Limousine Liberal, who ran third, beaten 1 3/4 lengths in the Commonwealth. Limousine Liberal won the Churchill Downs in 2017 and 2018. Limousine Liberal was able to make up ground in the Commonwealth, something some of the other favorites proved unable to do. General George Stakes winner Uncontested, the tepid 7-2 public choice, was surprisingly void of early speed and raced in the rear half of the pack from start to finish Saturday, running eighth.