Half-brother to Blame has first win

Keros, a half-brother to Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Blame, romped by 10 lengths Saturday night in a six-furlong maiden race.

Keros, a 4-year-old son of First Samurai, was making his third start and his first since being gelded. He is based at the Skylight training center with Tom Drury.

Keros is owned by his breeders, Claiborne Farm and Adele Dilschneider, who campaigned Blame, best known for dealing Zenyatta her only career defeat in their epic clash in the 2010 Breeders’ Cup Classic. Blame, by Arch, has become an established sire at Claiborne.

Liable, now 23, is the dam of both Blame and Keros. Although they were born eight years apart, only one other Liable foal between them ever made the races: Might, a 2008 foal who won 2 of 4 starts.

Goldberry eyes Pan Zareta

Goldberry, winner of the Nov. 30 Holiday Inaugural at Turfway, could make her next start in the Jan. 5 Pan Zareta, a 5 1/2-furlong turf race at Fair Grounds. In the meantime, trainer Marco Castaneda has been turning down sizable private offers to buy Goldberry, a 4-year-old War Chant filly who cost owner Karen Schaeffer just $5,500 as a 2015 yearling.

For Castaneda, the Holiday Inaugural was his first stakes win in 15 years of training. Both he and his wife, retired jockey Bonnie Castaneda, have endured very trying circumstances in recent years while living in Lexington, Ky. Bonnie Castaneda, now 57, is working on a local farm after years of rehabilitation required in the aftermath of serious neck and back injuries suffered in a Turfway spill on Jan. 1, 2012.