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Keeneland Race Track features five major graded horse racing events on Saturday’s card. The Claiborne Breeders’ Futurity Stakes is set aside for two-year Thoroughbreds and the other four graded stake races are for three and older race horses.
A pair of sprint races fill the card at Keeneland this Saturday and both have a $350,000 prize purse. The Thoroughbred Club of America Stakes is open to fillies and mare three and older. The Grade 2 event on dirt covers six furlongs and Sconsin and Happy Soul are favorites for this race.
The Woodford Presented by FanDuel is a stakes race open to Thoroughbreds three and older. A turf sprint covered 5 ½ furlongs as a Grade 2 ranking. Golden Pal and Bound For Nowhere are favorites and they are both trained by Wesley Wood.
The First Lady Presented by UK HealthCare is a Grade 1 stakes open to fillies and mares three and older. The mile run on turf has a $750,000 prize purse and Regal Glory is the favorite. The Coolmore Turf Mile is open to Thoroughbreds three and older. The prize purse is a cool $1 million and it is ranked a Grade 1 race. Ivar is favored in this one.
2022 Breeders’ Futurity Predictions
When: Saturday, October 9th 2022
Where: Keeneland Race Track
The Breeders’ Futurity at Keeneland is a Grade 1 race over 1 1/16 miles on dirt. There are 15 probable entries in this event but Forte, Carmel Road and Lost Ark should finish in the money if they are scheduled for this race.
Win: Forte
The Kentucky-bred two-year old has a victory in the Grade 1 Hopeful Stakes at Saratoga backing him up on Sept. 9. The lofty 7.03 rating by Horse Racing Nation is top the list in this field. Forte is eying up a run in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile in early November.
Sired by Violence and trained by Todd Pletcher, he has never crossed a mile in his previous three starts. However, Forte is bred to more up quickly. He is the favorite to win at the Breeders’ Futurity in Keeneland and one of the top favorites to win at the BC Juvenile.
Place: Carmel Road
Also a two-year old bred in Kentucky, Carmel Road has taken the West Coast road to Del Mar and Santa Anita in races at those tracks. Trained by Bob Baffert, he has won a 1-mile Maiden Special Weight race out in Del Mar Racetrack on Aug. 26 over Riverside and Hard To Figure.
As the son of Quality Road, he shows the speed and power to step up to major grade stakes status. Baffert could run him in the Grade 1 American Pharoah Stakes at Santa Anita on the same date.
Show: Lost Ark
Also trained by Pletcher, Lost Ark won the non-graded Sapling Stakes at Monmouth Park the end of August. Covering a mile on dirt, he had a time of 1:37.20 to breeze past Bourbon Spirit and Major Dude.
With Violence as his father, Lost Ark also has been bred to go farther distances. Pletcher has circled the BC Juvenile in early November for his next race.
