Stonestreet Stables' Twilight Gleaming , who closed her 2021 campaign with a victory in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint (G2T) at Del Mar, heads a field of eight 3-year-olds entered for the third running of the $200,000 Palisades Stakes going 5 1/2 furlongs on the turf April 10 at Keeneland.
The Palisades will go as the seventh race on Sunday's nine-race program with a 4:12 p.m. ET post time.
Trained by Wesley Ward, who won last year's Palisades with Chasing Artie , Twilight Gleaming has won three of her four grass starts with the lone setback coming in the Queen Mary Stakes (G2) at Royal Ascot in June. Irad Ortiz Jr. has the mount on the even-money favorite, who will break from post 7.
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Ward also will send out Gregory Kaufman's Kaufymaker , who finished third, beaten a length by Twilight Gleaming in the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint. Also making her 2022 debut, Kaufymaker will be ridden by John Velazquez and break from post 5.
Twilight Gleaming and Kaufymaker are the only two fillies in the Palisades field.
Jump Sucker Stable's Slipstream leads the males entered. The Christophe Clement-trained 3-year-old son of More Than Ready won the Futurity Stakes (G3T) at Belmont Park before a sixth-place finish in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf (G1). He is also starting for the first time since the fall.
Keeneland, Sunday, April 10, 2022, Race 7Entries: Palisades S.
PP
Horse
Jockey
Wgt
Trainer
M/L
1
1Classicstateofmind (KY)
Jose L. Ortiz
118
Jose Francisco D'Angelo
8/1
2
2Slipstream (KY)
Joel Rosario
120
Christophe Clement
5/2
3
3Baytown Frosty (KY)
Javier Padron-Barcenas
118
Paul McEntee
50/1
4
4Pure Panic (KY)
Adam Beschizza
118
Juan Munoz Cano
30/1
5
5Kaufymaker (KY)
John R. Velazquez
113
Wesley A. Ward
9/2
6
6Circle Back Jack (KY)
Rafael Mojica, Jr.
118
Sarah Hamilton
10/1
7
7Twilight Gleaming (IRE)
Irad Ortiz, Jr.
118
Wesley A. Ward
1/1
8
8No Nay Franklin (IRE)
Florent Geroux
118
Patrick L. Biancone
12/1