Wicked Halo brings win streak into Raven Run

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Wicked Halo will be aiming for her fourth straight stakes victory when she faces eight other 3-year-old fillies Saturday in the Grade 2, $350,000 Raven Run at Keeneland.

Wicked Halo will have Tyler Gaffalione aboard when she breaks from post 8 in the Raven Run, the ninth of 10 Saturday races and the last of two seven-furlong stakes for 3-year-olds on the card. The $250,000 Perryville, which drew eight colts and geldings, goes as Race 6.

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Wicked Halo, trained by Steve Asmussen, was withheld from the Oct. 8 Thoroughbred Club of America in what would have been her first race versus older horses to wait instead for the Raven Run. Fingal’s Cave (post 5, Joel Rosario) figures as her chief rival. The New York-bred filly makes her first start in a graded race after winning her first four starts.

From the rail, this is the Raven Run lineup: Union Lake, Smash Ticket, Republique, Last Leaf, Fingal’s Cave, Colorful Mischief, Freedom Speaks, Wicked Halo, and Midnight Stroll.

Here’s the Perryville: Hoist the Gold, Provocateur, Artorius, Pinehurst, Friar Laurence, B Dawk, Of a Revolution and Gunite.

First post Saturday is 1 p.m. Eastern, with the Perryville going at 3:40 and the Raven Run at 5:16.

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