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Team Valor International's Pluck, winner of the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf last November, heads a field of 10 three-year-olds in Friday's 23rd running of the $100,000, Grade 3 Transylvania, the opening-day feature of Keeneland's 15-day spring meeting.
The Transylvania, run at 1 1/16 miles on the turf, will go as the 9TH race on Friday's 10-race card with an approximate post time of 5:23 p.m. (ET). First post time on Friday is 1:15 p.m.
Trained by Graham Motion, Pluck finished fourth when kicking off his sophomore campaign in a March 12 allowance at Tampa Bay Downs. He'll regain the services of Garrett Gomez, who was up for the Breeders' Cup victory at Churchill Downs as well as a triumph in the Grade 3 Summer at Woodbine but missed the assignment in his 2011 opener. Pluck will break from the far outside post position under a 123-pound assignment.
Stakes winner Adirondack Summer and Air Support will also carry 123 pounds.
Air Support defeated Soldat when capturing the Grade 3 Pilgrim two starts back and will make his 2011 debut in the Transylvania for Shug McGaughey. He was last seen recording a ninth in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf. Regular rider Rajiv Maragh has the call.
Read more: http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/horse/triplecrown2011/news/story?id=6300134
The Transylvania, run at 1 1/16 miles on the turf, will go as the 9TH race on Friday's 10-race card with an approximate post time of 5:23 p.m. (ET). First post time on Friday is 1:15 p.m.
Trained by Graham Motion, Pluck finished fourth when kicking off his sophomore campaign in a March 12 allowance at Tampa Bay Downs. He'll regain the services of Garrett Gomez, who was up for the Breeders' Cup victory at Churchill Downs as well as a triumph in the Grade 3 Summer at Woodbine but missed the assignment in his 2011 opener. Pluck will break from the far outside post position under a 123-pound assignment.
Stakes winner Adirondack Summer and Air Support will also carry 123 pounds.
Air Support defeated Soldat when capturing the Grade 3 Pilgrim two starts back and will make his 2011 debut in the Transylvania for Shug McGaughey. He was last seen recording a ninth in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf. Regular rider Rajiv Maragh has the call.
Read more: http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/horse/triplecrown2011/news/story?id=6300134
