A total of eight stakes worth a combined $4.05 million will be run Friday and Saturday during the first two days of Keeneland’s Spring Meet. Here are the prospective entrants in the Saturday races compiled by Stakes Coordinator Baley Hare.
April 8 races. Entries taken Wednesday.
$1 MILLION TOYOTA BLUE GRASS (G1) – Blazing Sevens (Chad Brown), Classic Car Wash (Mark Casse), Hayes Strike (Kenny McPeek), Major Blue (D. Wayne Lukas), Mendelssohns March (McPeek), Raise Cain (Ben Colebrook), Sun Thunder (McPeek), Tapit Trice (Todd Pletcher), Verifying (Brad Cox). Possible:Scoobie Quando (Colebrook).
$600,000 MADISON (G1) – Goodnight Olive (Brown), Maryquitecontrary (Shug McGaughey), Yuugiri(Rodolphe Brisset). Possible: Caramel Swirl (Bill Mott).
$400,000 APPALACHIAN (G2) PRESENTED BY JAPAN RACING ASSOCIATION – Alpha Bella(Pletcher), Be Your Best (IRE) (Horacio De Paz), Beautifulnavigator (IRE) (McPeek), Cairo Consort(Pletcher), Heavenly Sunday (Cox), Papilio (IRE) (Mark Casse), Pleasant Passage (McGaughey), Sabalenka(Whit Beckman), Well Into (Jonathan Thomas). Possible: Peacock Lass (Brisset).
$350,000 SHAKERTOWN (G2) – Caravel (Cox), Johnny Unleashed (Eric Foster), Mister Mmmmm (Wayne Catalano), Our Shot (John Terranova II). Possible: Oceanic (Jordan Blair), Stitched (Greg Foley).
$300,000 COMMONWEALTH (G3) – Heart Rhythm (John Ortiz), Get Her Number (Peter Miller), Hoistthe Gold (Dallas Stewart), Long Range Toddy (Stewart), Nakatomi (Wesley Ward), Run Classic (Bret Calhoun). Possible: Eastern Bay (Lynn Cash), Sir Alfred James (Cash).