Bulletin Aims to Stay Perfect in Palisades Turf Sprint

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Photo: Chad B. Harmon
Bulletin wins the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint at Churchill Downs

Keeneland kicks off its spring meet April 4 with an eight-race card highlighted by the inaugural $100,000 Palisades Turf Sprint Stakes. Fourteen 3-year-olds are entered in the 5 1/2-furlong feature along with two also-eligibles. 

WinStar Farm, China Horse Club, and SF Racing's Bulletin tops the field and will aim to keep his record perfect. The City Zip colt and Todd Pletcher trainee won his career debut in the Sept. 29 Hollywood Beach Stakes at Gulfstream Park and followed that effort with another win in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint Nov. 2 at Churchill Downs. 

Jockey Javier Castellano retains the mount from post 12.

Making his 2019 debut, John Oxley's Strike Silver returns to the site of his Indian Summer Stakes success. The Mark Casse-trained son of Violence  won the Indian Summer at the Palisades distance Oct. 7 before finishing a troubled seventh behind Bulletin in the Juvenile Turf Sprint.

Strike Silver will break to Bulletin's inside from post 11 and will partner with Julien Leparoux. 

Others of note include Gladiator King (post 8), who upset the March 23 Hutcheson Stakes (G3) at Gulfstream and has two wins and a stakes placing on the turf, and the Wesley Ward-trained filly Chelsea Cloisters (post 13), second in both the Indian Summer and  Juvenile Turf Sprint.

Yes I Am Free, Vivid Verse, Tobacco Road, Joyful Heart, Vogt, Real News, Hawaiian Noises, Abyssinian, Mick's Star, and Dom Carlos complete the field. Uncapped and Front Office are on the also-eligible list.


Entries: Palisades Turf Sprint S.

Keeneland, Thursday, April 04, 2019, Race 7

  • STK
  • 5 1/2f
  • Turf
  • $100,000
  • 3 yo
  • 6:18 PM (local)
PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L
1 1Yes I Am Free (FL) Tyler Gaffalione 118 Mark E. Casse 10/1
2 2Vivid Verse (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Adam Beschizza 118 Joe Sharp 20/1
3 3Tobacco Road (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Corey J. Lanerie 118 Steven M. Asmussen 15/1
4 4Joyful Heart (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Luis Saez 118 Brian A. Lynch 20/1
5 5Vogt (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Florent Geroux 118 Steven M. Asmussen 12/1
6 6Real News (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Joel Rosario 118 Albert M. Stall, Jr. 12/1
7 7Hawaiian Noises (KY) Luan Machado 118 Wesley A. Ward 12/1
8 8Gladiator King (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Leonel Reyes 118 Jaime Mejia 8/1
9 9Abyssinian (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate John R. Velazquez 113 Wesley A. Ward 5/1
10 10Mick's Star (KY) Brian Joseph Hernandez, Jr. 118 Thomas M. Amoss 20/1
11 11Strike Silver (KY) Julien R. Leparoux 118 Mark E. Casse 12/1
12 12Bulletin (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Javier Castellano 123 Todd A. Pletcher 2/1
13 13Chelsea Cloisters (KY) Albin Jimenez 118 Wesley A. Ward 10/1
14 14Dom Carlos (IRE) Jose L. Ortiz 118 Mark E. Casse 12/1
15 15Uncapped (KY) Tyler Gaffalione 118 Brendan P. Walsh 30/1
16 16Front Office (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Robby Albarado 118 Merrill R. Scherer 50/1