Grand Sonata Takes on Coinage in Transylvania
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Grand Sonata wins the Kitten's Joy Stakes at Gulfstream Park
Whisper Hill Farm's Grand Sonata , a winner of two grass stakes this winter at Gulfstream Park, and D. J. Stable and Chester and Mary Broman's Coinage , winner of the Palm Beach Stakes in his most recent start, top a field of six 3-year-olds for the $400,000 Kentucky Utilities Transylvania Stakes (G3T) going 1 1/16 miles on the grass April 8 at Keeneland.
The Kentucky Utilities Transylvania will go as the afternoon's eighth race on the 10-race program with a 4:44 p.m. ET post time.
Trained by Todd Pletcher, who won the Transylvania in 2013 with Jack Milton , Grand Sonata won the Dania Beach Stakes and the Kitten's Joy Stakes (G3T) in his two starts of 2022. Tyler Gaffalione, who was aboard the Medaglia d'Oro colt for both wins, has the mount from post 4.
Coinage takes the Palm Beach Stakes at Gulfstream Park
Coinage, trained by Mark Casse, has compiled a 2-0-2 record from five starts on grass, with his lone off-the-board finish coming in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf (G1T) at Del Mar to close his 2021 campaign. Luis Saez has the mount from post 5 on the son of Tapit .
Two-time race winner Chad Brown will send out undefeated Verbal for Juddmonte. Winner of the Cecil B. DeMille (G3T) at Del Mar to close 2021, the Flintshire colt will be ridden by regular rider Jose Ortiz from post 6.
Keeneland, Friday, April 08, 2022, Race 8Entries: Kentucky Utilities Transylvania S. (G3T)
PP
Horse
Jockey
Wgt
Trainer
M/L
1
1Credibility (KY)
Florent Geroux
118
Mark E. Casse
8/1
2
2Napoleonic War (KY)
Flavien Prat
118
Chad C. Brown
15/1
3
3Sy Dog (KY)
Irad Ortiz, Jr.
118
H. Graham Motion
3/1
4
4Grand Sonata (KY)
Tyler Gaffalione
118
Todd A. Pletcher
5/2
5
5Coinage (NY)
Luis Saez
118
Mark E. Casse
3/1
6
6Verbal (KY)
Jose L. Ortiz
118
Chad C. Brown
2/1
