Sunday card features three allowance races
LEXINGTON, Ky. – With only three stakes left at the 16-day Keeneland spring meet following the big Jenny Wiley card here Saturday, allowance races will serve as the features on most remaining cards. That’s the case Sunday, when three allowances will anchor a nine-race program that starts at 1:05 p.m. Eastern.
Eight Town, exiting a pair of Grade 3 stakes at Gulfstream Park, figures as a deserving favorite in the richest of that trio when facing six other older horses in race 8, an $82,000, fourth-level allowance race at six furlongs. Joel Rosario has the call for trainer Brian Lynch.
The earlier allowances are an $80,000, second-level turf route for older horses at 1 1/8 miles (race 5) and a $76,000, first-level turf mile for fillies and mares (race 7). Both drew big fields.
After Sunday, Keeneland goes dark for two days before another five-day week resumes Wednesday. Stakes still to be run are the Grade 3 Doubledogdare next Friday, the Grade 2 Elkhorn next Saturday, and the Grade 3 Bewitch on closing day, April 27.
Memorable day for ‘Biscuit’
In a matter of just a couple of hours, British-born jockey Adam Beschizza reached the goal he set for himself at the three-week spring meet. Beschizza rode his first two Keeneland winners Thursday, with Shape Shifter ($23.80) in the fifth and Dagney’s Warrior ($24.80) in the ninth.
“I said when I came to Keeneland that if I won two, I would be happy,” Beschizza, nicknamed “Biscuit,” told track publicity. “I’m not done yet.”
Beschizza, 25, enjoyed a breakthrough winter at Fair Grounds, riding 65 winners, third in the meet standings. He intends to incorporate the major Kentucky tracks into a year-round circuit.
