Limousine Liberal Begins 2019 Campaign in Commonwealth

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Photo: Anne M. Eberhardt
Limousine Liberal with trainer Ben Colebrook at Keeneland

Limousine Liberal returns to the races to begin his 7-year-old campaign in the $250,000 Commonwealth Stakes (G3) April 6 at Keeneland.

Katherine Ball's homebred Successful Appeal gelding spends most of the year in Lexington and wintered at Keeneland this season. He has banked nearly $1.8 million and is a four-time graded stakes winner, but of his six black-type victories, five have come at Churchill Downs and none at Keeneland, a situation trainer Ben Colebrook is looking to change.

"I think he's as good here and likes it as much as he does at Churchill," said Colebrook. "He's just had some brutal beats here. He's doing really well, and I don't see anything different in him as far as age. He's getting his game face on. It's a tough race to start the season with, being seven furlongs, but there looks like there's enough pace to set it up for him."

This is Limousine Liberal's third try at the Commonwealth. He is 5-for-11 at the race's seven-furlong distance. 

Sagamore Farm's Recruiting Ready enters off a score in the Gulfstream Park Sprint Stakes (G3) and will likely make the pace from the two hole. He is a six-furlong specialist trying seven for just the second time but is in sharp form.

China Horse Club, WinStar Farm, Head of Plains Partners, and SF Racing will send out Copper Town from the rail. He ran second behind Prince Lucky in the Hal's Hope Stakes (G3) at Gulfstream Park and won an allowance event by five lengths last fall in his only Keeneland appearance.  

Also entered is Joe Peacock's homebred Runaway Ghost, who returned from the injury that knocked him out of last year's Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve (G1) to win back-to-back races for trainer Todd Fincher—the Feb. 2 Ft. Bliss Stakes going six furlongs by 2 1/2 lengths, and the Feb. 24 Curribot Handicap going 1 1/16 miles by 1 1/2 lengths, both at Sunland Park. This is the first foray to the Bluegrass State for the 4-year-old son of Ghostzapper  whose prior starts all came at Sunland or in California.


Entries: Commonwealth S. (G3)

Keeneland, Saturday, April 06, 2019, Race 6

  • Grade III
  • 7f
  • Dirt
  • $250,000
  • 4 yo's & up
  • 4:00 PM (local)
PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L
1 1Copper Town (KY) Javier Castellano 118 Todd A. Pletcher 5/1
2 2Recruiting Ready (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Luis Saez 120 Stanley M. Hough 7/2
3 3Proforma (KY) Joe Bravo 120 Michael Stidham 20/1
4 4Uncontested (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Trevor McCarthy 120 Jennifer Patterson 12/1
5 5Still Having Fun (MD) Florent Geroux 118 Timothy L. Keefe 12/1
6 6Limousine Liberal (KY) Tyler Gaffalione 120 Ben Colebrook 3/1
7 7Supreme Aura (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Adam Beschizza 118 Michael Stidham 30/1
8 8Uno Mas Modelo (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Paco Lopez 118 Anthony T. Quartarolo 20/1
9 9New York Central (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Julien R. Leparoux 118 Steven M. Asmussen 20/1
10 10Runaway Ghost (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Corey J. Lanerie 118 Todd W. Fincher 15/1
11 11Bobby's Wicked One (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Miguel Mena 118 Albert M. Stall, Jr. 8/1
12 12Richiesinthehouse (IL) Jose Valdivia, Jr. 118 Larry Rivelli 15/1
13 13Warrior's Club (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Jon Kenton Court 118 D. Wayne Lukas 10/1
14 14Majestic Dunhill (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Irad Ortiz, Jr. 118 George Weaver 12/1