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Mi Bago Headlines Overflow Field for Friday's Transylvania Presented by Keeneland Select on Opening Day of the Spring Meet

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.:

PostHorseTrainerJockeyWeight
1Chasing LibertyRob AtrasLuis Saez118 lbs.
2Reagan’s Wit Cherie DeVauxJose Ortiz118
3Golden AfternoonNick VaccarezzaJoel Rosario118
4Maui StrongDale RomansVincent Cheminaud118
5SabertoothBrittany RussellBrian Hernandez Jr. 118
6VersusKelly BreenLuan Machado118
7Test ScoreGraham MotionManny Franco118
8ScipioRichard BaltasFlavien Prat118
9Tom’s MagicMike StidhamBen Curtis118
10Clock TowerWesley WardGerardo Corrales118
11Mi BagoMark CasseIrad Ortiz Jr. 118
12HammerheadChad SummersLuca Panici118
AE/13BarricadeTodd PletcherIrad Ortiz Jr. 118
AE/14SeptarianChad BrownDylan Davis118
AE/15Pretty CapableTom AmossEdgar Morales118
AE/16ValentinianTodd PletcherJohn Velazquez118