Gary Barber’s Mi Bago, riding a three-race win streak, headlines a field of 12 3-year-olds plus four also-eligibles entered Monday for Friday’s 37th running of the $600,000 Transylvania (G3) Presented by Keeneland Select.
The 1 1/16-mile grass test will be run as the eighth race on Friday’s 10-race program with a 4:44 p.m. ET post time. First post is 1 p.m.
Trained by Mark Casse, Mi Bago was a frontrunning, 4¾-length winner of the Colonel Liam (L) at Gulfstream Park on March 1. Prior to that, Mi Bago won the Dania Beach (L) and Pulpit (L) at Gulfstream. Irad Ortiz Jr., who was aboard for the Colonel Liam victory, has the call Friday from post 11.
Returning to the grass for the first time since winning the Cecil B. DeMille (G3) at Del Mar on Dec. 1 is Mrs. Fitriani Hay’s Clock Tower.
Trained by Wesley Ward, Clock Tower has two victories and a third-place finish in three starts on the grass. Gerardo Corrales has the mount from post 10.
Trainer Rob Atras, who won last year’s Transylvania Presented by Keeneland Select with Neat, returns with three-time stakes winner Chasing Liberty. Owned by the partnership of Twin Creeks Racing Stables and CMNWLTH, Chasing Liberty recorded his most recent victory in the Texas Turf Mile in January, the same race Neat won a year ago. Luis Saez has the mount from post 1.
Field for the $600,000 Transylvania Presented by Keeneland Select,
1 1/16 miles (turf), Race 8, 4:44 p.m.:
Post | Horse | Trainer | Jockey | Weight |
1 | Chasing Liberty | Rob Atras | Luis Saez | 118 lbs. |
2 | Reagan’s Wit | Cherie DeVaux | Jose Ortiz | 118 |
3 | Golden Afternoon | Nick Vaccarezza | Joel Rosario | 118 |
4 | Maui Strong | Dale Romans | Vincent Cheminaud | 118 |
5 | Sabertooth | Brittany Russell | Brian Hernandez Jr. | 118 |
6 | Versus | Kelly Breen | Luan Machado | 118 |
7 | Test Score | Graham Motion | Manny Franco | 118 |
8 | Scipio | Richard Baltas | Flavien Prat | 118 |
9 | Tom’s Magic | Mike Stidham | Ben Curtis | 118 |
10 | Clock Tower | Wesley Ward | Gerardo Corrales | 118 |
11 | Mi Bago | Mark Casse | Irad Ortiz Jr. | 118 |
12 | Hammerhead | Chad Summers | Luca Panici | 118 |
AE/13 | Barricade | Todd Pletcher | Irad Ortiz Jr. | 118 |
AE/14 | Septarian | Chad Brown | Dylan Davis | 118 |
AE/15 | Pretty Capable | Tom Amoss | Edgar Morales | 118 |
AE/16 | Valentinian | Todd Pletcher | John Velazquez | 118 |