Familiar Foes Meet in Shakertown

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Photo: Keeneland Photo/Photos by Z
Bound for Nowhere wins the 2018 Shakertown Stakes at Keeneland

Turf sprinters are a subset of Thoroughbred runners all their own. The stakes opportunities are limited, and most tend to last longer and make more starts.

Thirteen runners passed the entry box for the $200,000 Shakertown Stakes (G2T) over 5 1/2 furlongs April 6 at Keeneland—Saturday's Blue Grass Day card—including a handful that ran in last year's event.

Last year's winner, Wesley Ward's Bound for Nowhere, is the 4-1 co-second choice and will break from post 9. A winner last April at odds of 8-1, the 5-year-old son of The Factor  bounded off for Royal Ascot and finished a game third in the six-furlong Diamond Jubilee Stakes (G1). Bound for Nowhere will make his seasonal debut at Keeneland but has prepped well, filing three bullet workouts over Turfway Park's Polytrack in March.

Previous trips over Keeneland's turf course are a plus at all distances, and Bound for Nowhere has won twice in three starts in Lexington.

The 5-2 morning-line favorite is last year's Shakertown choice, Patricia Generazio's Disco Partner. The 7-year-old son of Disco Rico finished third last year over soft going and is much more suited to firm footing. In all, Disco Partner is 11-5-6 in 28 starts and, like Bound for Nowhere, will make his 2019 debut.

Klein Racing and Sol Kumin's Madaket Stables' Will Call closed from eighth to finish second in Keeneland's Woodford Stakes Presented by Keeneland Select (G2T) in October (the fall meet's equivalent race). Yielding going was his undoing in his 2018 finale in the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint (G1T). By the Klein family's Country Day, Will Call won the Twin Spires Turf Sprint Stakes Presented by Twinspires.com (G3T) at Churchill Downs on Derby weekend.

Quick out the gate will be Gary Barber's Conquest Tsunami, who ships in from Southern California for trainer Peter Miller off a fifth in the March 31 San Simeon Stakes (G3T), and Latent Revenge, who is winless in five Keeneland turf tries but comes in hot off a gate-to-wire effort March 9 at Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots under Gabriel Saez. In February, the 7-year-old son of Latent Heat just failed to fend off 4-year-old Chaos Theory in the 5 1/2-furlong Colonel Power Stakes.


Entries: Shakertown S. (G2T)

Keeneland, Saturday, April 06, 2019, Race 7

  • Grade IIT
  • 5 1/2f
  • Turf
  • $200,000
  • 3 yo's & up
  • 4:35 PM (local)
PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L
1 1Jazzy Times (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Miguel Mena 121 Wesley E. Hawley 20/1
2 2Richard's Boy (CA) Robby Albarado 121 Peter Miller 15/1
3 3Disco Partner (NY) Irad Ortiz, Jr. 123 Christophe Clement 5/2
4 4Shakhimat (ON)Keeneland Sales Graduate Julien R. Leparoux 121 Roger L. Attfield 30/1
5 5Bay Muzik (WV) Corey J. Lanerie 121 Miguel Angel Silva 30/1
6 6Will Call (KY) Javier Castellano 121 Brad H. Cox 6/1
7 7Square Shooter (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Jorge A. Vargas, Jr. 121 Jeremiah C. Englehart 20/1
8 8Conquest Tsunami (ON)Keeneland Sales Graduate Florent Geroux 123 Peter Miller 4/1
9 9Bound for Nowhere (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Luis Saez 121 Wesley A. Ward 4/1
10 10Latent Revenge (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Gabriel Saez 121 Gregory D. Foley 20/1
11 11Imprimis (FL) Paco Lopez 123 Joseph F. Orseno 6/1
12 12Chaos Theory (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Tyler Gaffalione 123 Brendan P. Walsh 20/1
13 13Angaston (KY) Brian Joseph Hernandez, Jr. 123 Lon Wiggins 20/1