Heywoods Beach Tops Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance Nominations

Hronis Racing’s Heywoods Beach, winner of his past two starts going a mile and a half, tops a list of 23 horses nominated to the 15^th running of the $350,000 Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance (G2) for 3-year-olds and up going 1 5/8 miles on the main track.

Entries for the race, which will precede the first of five Breeders’ Cup World Championships races on Nov. 4 Future Stars Friday, will be taken Monday, Oct. 31.

Trained by John Sadler, Heywoods Beach won the Tokyo City (G3) at Santa Anita on Oct. 2 and prior to that won the Cougar II (G3) at Del Mar.

Also nominated to the race are the 2-3 finishers from the Tokyo City, Win the Day and Tizamagician.

Boat Racing, Fritz Brothers Racing and William Strauss’ Win the Day has been training at Keeneland and posted a 5-furlong work in 1:03.20 here on Saturday. He is trained by Doug O’Neill.

My Racehorse and Spendthrift Farm’s Tizamagician, trained by Richard Mandella, was second in this race last year at Del Mar. Tizamagician is a multiple graded stakes winner.

Another nomination of note is Lucky Seven Stable’s Rattle N Roll. Trained by Kenny McPeek, Rattle N Roll won the Claiborne Breeders’ Futurity (G1) here last fall and this year is a three-time Derby winner, taking the American Derby at Churchill Downs, St. Louis Derby at FanDuel Sportsbook and Horse Racing (formerly Fairmount Park) and Oklahoma Derby (G3) at Remington Park.