Petrov targets Steel Valley Sprint

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Trainer Ron Moquett said Petrov will be pointed to the $200,000 Steel Valley Sprint on Nov. 20 at Mahoning Valley in Ohio after keeping his non-stakes record perfect with a one-length victory in a 6 1/2-furlong allowance here Wednesday.

Petrov is winless in eight stakes tries – although he was second, third, or fourth in six of them – while having won his other three career starts. The six-furlong Steel Valley is restricted to 3-year-olds.

Solid Sunday undercard

Besides the Grade 3 Dowager, the Sunday card at Keeneland offers three allowances, including bookends of the nine-race program.

Race 1 drew six sprinters for a $75,000 purse, and all but one of them is a stakes winner. Race 9 is a second-level, seven-furlong race with a $69,000 purse that drew a well-matched field of nine. The remaining allowance (race 6) got an oversubscribed field of 2-year-old fillies going a mile on turf for a $67,000 purse.