Prevalence brings graded stakes-winning credentials to allowance

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Prevalence, a graded stakes winner at Keeneland earlier this year, and stakes winners Hollis and Chattalot highlight a salty field for Keeneland’s allowance feature on the Wednesday card, a $140,000 sprint for 3-year-olds and up.

The seventh of eight races on the card, this 6 1/2-furlong allowance is for 3-year-olds and up who have never won four races other than maiden, claiming, starter, restricted, or statebred, or who have not won $60,905 twice other-than in 2022. Those conditions have allowed for a field of seven that also includes graded stakes-placed South Bend and stakes-placed Doc Amster and Here Mi Song.

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Prevalence, a Godolphin homebred who is trained by Brendan Walsh, won the Grade 3 Commonwealth Stakes at Keeneland’s spring meeting, stalking the pace and then pouncing to win by 2 1/4 lengths, going away. In his subsequent start, he was last of seven in a strong field in the Grade 1 Churchill Downs Stakes on the Kentucky Derby card. He makes his first start since then Wednesday.

Prevalence has been working steadily in Kentucky and has stepped up the tempo in recent weeks. In his most recent work, he breezed a half-mile from the gate on Oct. 8 in 47 seconds – the bullet among 134 works at the distance.

Prevalence is drawn in the outside post in this field of seven under Tyler Gaffalione. Classy speed will be provided to his inside, with Hollis firing out of post 3 under Gerardo Corrales and Chattalot drawn in post 6 under Ricardo Santana Jr.

Chattalot, winner of the Sugar Bowl last December at Fair Grounds, is the only 3-year-old in the field, and, as such, gets a weight break.

Hollis won an allowance at Oaklawn in December with a Beyer Speed Figure of 109, the best in this field. He won the West Virginia Legislature Chairman’s Cup Stakes at Mountaineer in August, his third stakes win, and most recently was second in the Rumson Stakes at Monmouth.

Hollis is trained by John Ortiz, who also sends out Heart Rhythm in his first start off the claim. The barn picked up the colt for $100,000 out of a sixth-place finish in an allowance/optional claimer won by Here Mi Song at Churchill Downs. He faces Here Mi Song again Wednesday. Reylu Gutierrez, who has ridden Hollis several times, including to an allowance win this year, gets on Heart Rhythm.

Heart Rhythm and Here Mi Song are closers who would appreciate running on into a hot pace.

The Wednesday card at Keeneland also includes a pair of $110,000 turf-sprint allowance races for fillies and mares, and a $100,000 maiden special weight for 2-year-olds.

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