Sunday card features four allowances

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – An excellent nine-race card highlighted by no fewer than four allowances (races 4, 5, 7, 9) is on tap for Sunday at Ellis as the first three-day week of the 30-day meet comes to an end.

Crosswalk, a promising 3-year-old trained by Neil Howard, is the most prominent name on the card. Even though he is facing older horses for the first time, the City Zip colt figures as a solid favorite in race 5, a $44,000 second-level allowance at six furlongs.

First post daily at Ellis is 12:50 p.m. Central. The next stakes, the $50,000 Good Lord for sprinters, is set for next Sunday, July 22.

Chuan giving Kentucky a try

Martin Chuan (pronounced “Schwann”), a 23-year-old native of Peru, won with his first mount of the year in North America, booting home Angelo’s Ashes in the fourth race last Sunday at Ellis. Chuan had just one mount on this continent in 2013 and one in 2017.

Chuan, whose book is being handled by Jake Romans, has won numerous Group 1 races in his home country, where he ranks second in purse earnings this year. He was named on 11 mounts this week at Ellis, including five Sunday.

◗ Two Ellis jockeys, Calvin Borel and Declan Cannon, will be sitting out next week (July 20-22) when serving three-day suspensions for riding infractions stemming from July 6 races. Borel is being penalized for his ride on Jill’s Passion, disqualified from second to third, and Cannon for his ride on Yaafour, disqualified from second to fourth.