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John Velazquez guides Wolfie’s Dynaghost to victory within the Kentucky Cup Basic
Woodslane Farms latest Grade 2 winner Wolfie’s Dynaghost will face a stellar discipline of 12 plus two also-eligibles that have been entered for Saturday’s twenty eighth operating of the $125,000 Prairie Bayou Stakes at Turfway Park.
The Prairie Bayou Stakes might be contested in Race 7 of 9. Publish time for the 1 1/16-mile occasion is 8:55 p.m. (ET), first put up is 5:55 p.m.
Educated by Jonathan Thomas, the completed Wolfie’s Dynaghost has received 9 begins from his 24-race profession, together with the TwinSpires Kentucky Cup Basic (Listed) March 25 on the undercard of the Jeff Ruby Steaks (G3) on the Northern Kentucky monitor. Following his win in that race, Thomas campaigned the 5-year-old son of Ghostzapper throughout North America, together with at Woodbine, the place he was victorious within the Autumn Stakes (G2) Nov. 2 in his most up-to-date outing. Jockey Tyler Conner will trip Wolfie’s Dynaghost from put up No. 7.
Additionally entered within the Prairie Bayou are the 2022 and 2021 winners of the Jeff Ruby Steaks, Tiz the Bomb and Just like the King.
Tiz the Bomb, skilled by Kenny McPeek and owned by Brookdale Racing, has an ideal file from two begins at Turfway. Previous to his 2¼-length victory within the Jeff Ruby Steaks, Tiz the Bomb held off a late cost of Stolen Base to win the John Battaglia Memorial. Tiz the Bomb might be in quest of his first victory for the reason that Jeff Ruby Steaks. He’ll begin out of put up 4 with Joe Talamo within the irons.
M Racing Group’s Just like the King will try to win his fifth-lifetime race within the Prairie Bayou. Just like the King scored a 7-1 upset victory within the Jeff Ruby Steaks and for almost all of his 4-year-old and 5-year-old seasons has been competing at Woodbine. The Mark Casse trainee might be ridden by Fernando De La Cruz from the rail.
One other completed runner within the discipline is Robert Hunt’s latest Bryan Station Stakes (G3) winner Runaway Storm. Educated by Ethan West, the ultra-consistent Runaway Storm is a three-time winner from simply 5 begins. The three-year-old son of Midnight Storm has been primarily based on the backstretch of Turfway Park for almost all of his profession with now year-round coaching on the facility.
5 weeks in the past, Runaway Storm rallied from simply off the tempo to defeat seven foes within the Bryan Station at Keeneland. Previous to that begin, West shipped Midnight Storm to Colonial Downs the place he completed third by 3 ½ size to Integration and Program Buying and selling within the extremely productive Virginia Derby (G3). 4 of 9 runners within the Virginia Derby returned to win stakes occasions – Integration (Grade 2 Hill Prince), Program Buying and selling (Grade 1 Hollywood Derby), Runaway Storm (Bryan Station) and sixth-place finisher Gigante (the off-the-turf Commonwealth Turf). Runaway Storm might be ridden within the Prairie Bayou by Colby Hernandez out of put up No. 6.
Following is the whole discipline for the Prairie Bayou Stakes from the rail out (with jockey and coach): Just like the King (De La Cruz, Casse); Ocean Atlantique (Luan Machado Mike Maker); Temple (Axel Concepcion, Mike Maker); Tiz the Bomb (Joe Talamo, Kenny McPeek); Hush of a Storm (Gerardo Corrales, Billy Morey); Runaway Storm (Hernandez, West); Wolfie’s Dynaghost (Conner, Thomas); Kitodan (Alex Achard, Eric Foster); Cellist (Martin Garcia, Rusty Arnold); Warfare Bomber (IRE) (Orlando Mojica, Norm McKnight); Packs a Wahlop (Abel Cedillo, Billy Morey); Go away It to Kitten (Joe Ramos, Kathy Jarvis). Additionally-eligibles: Honest Dinkum (Axel Concepcion, Joe Sharp); Classic Print (Gerardo Corrales, Paulo Lobo).
The Prairie Bayou Stakes is known as in honor of the 1993 winner of the Jeff Ruby Stakes (previously Jim Beam Stakes). Prairie Bayou, who was owned by Loblolly Steady and skilled by Tom Bohannan, was the 4-1 favourite in that yr’s Kentucky Derby (G1) however completed second to Sea Hero. He would go on to win the Preakness Stakes (GI) two weeks later en path to incomes the Eclipse Award a champion 3-year-old.
