Breeders' Cup Juvenile Third Keepmeinmind Heads Saturday's Grade II, $200,000 Kentucky Jockey Club

Nov 27, 2020

Cypress Creek
and Arnold Bennewith’s
$2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (Grade I) third-place finisher Keepmeinmind will be in search of his first-career
victory against a competitive field of nine 2-year-olds, which includes stakes
winners King Fury and Sittin On Go,
entered in Saturday’s 94^th running of the $200,000 Kentucky Jockey
Club (GII).

         
Run at 1 1/16 miles, the Kentucky Jockey Club is carded as Race 11 of 12 on
Saturday’s “Stars of Tomorrow II” program featuring all 2-year-old
races. First post is 1 p.m. and the Kentucky Jockey Club will go at 5:56 p.m.
The race will share the spotlight with its counterpart, the $200,000 Golden Rod
(GII) for 2-year-old fillies. The Golden Rod will go as Race 9 at 4:57 p.m.

Churchill
Downs’ Stars of Tomorrow programs have helped launch the career of more than 50
Grade I winners including Kentucky Oaks winners Rachel Alexandra, Believe
You Can and Monomoy Girl, Preakness
(GI) winner Swiss Skydiver and 2010 Kentucky Derby winner Super Saver,
who won the Kentucky Jockey Club in 2009.

Keepmeinmind has yet to
record a victory for trainer Robertino Diodoro but sports a runner-up effort behind likely
2-year-old champion Essential Quality in the $400,000 Breeders’ Futurity
(GI). Following the Breeders’ Futurity, he finished third in the Breeders’ Cup
Juvenile where he was defeated two lengths by Essential Quality and Hot Rod
Charlie.

Diodoro’s go-to rider David
Cohen has the mount on Keepmeinmind and will
break from post position No. 4.

Another
juvenile likely to garner attention in the Kentucky Jockey Club is Fern
Circle Stables and Three Chimneys Farm’s $98,000 Street Sense winner
King Fury. Trained by Kenny McPeek, King Fury
will add blinkers for his start in the Kentucky Jockey Club following his
seventh-place effort in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile. Named after the superstar
boxer Tyson Fury, King Fury added blinkers in his most recent work at
Churchill Downs, a five-furlong move in 1:00.60.

Brian
Hernandez Jr. has the call on King Fury from post 8.

Also
entered in the field is Albaugh Family
Stable’s coupled entry of $200,000 Iroquois (GIII) upset winner Sittin On Go and recent maiden winner Smiley
Sobotka. Trained by Dale Romans, Sittin On Go recorded a shocking 24-1 upset victory in the
Iroquois by 2 ½ lengths. In his first try at two turns, Sittin
On Go was forced very wide in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile and finished a
non-descript ninth.

Corey
Lanerie is named in the
program on both horses. Should the bottom part of the entry, Smiley Sobotka, run in the field, there will be a late jockey
change. Sittin On Go will break from post 2 while
Smiley Sobotka drew post 5.

Trainer
Brad Cox entered two of his promising juveniles in the Kentucky Jockey
Club. Kueber Racing and Ten Strike
Racing’s three-length maiden winner Swill will break from the rail
with Florent Geroux
in the irons and Godolphin’s two-length maiden winner Inspector Frost
drew post 6 with Hall of Famer John Velazquez in the saddle. Swill, a
2-year-old colt by Munnings, was a wire-to-wire
winner in his third start on Sept. 24 at Churchill Downs while Inspector Frost
broke his maiden at second asking on Oct. 18 at Keeneland
under Geroux. This will be both colt’s first start
going two turns and they will both remove blinkers for this start.

The
complete field for the Kentucky Jockey Club (with jockey and trainer): #1 Sittin On Go (Corey Lanerie, Dale
Romans); #1a Smiley Sobotka (Corey Lanerie, Dale Romans); #2 Swill (Geroux,
Cox); #3 Arabian Prince (Tyler Gaffalione,
Dallas Stewart); #4 Keepmeinmind (Cohen, Diodoro); #5 Inspector Frost (Velazquez, Cox); #6 Oncoming
Train (Rafael Bejarano, Jimmy DiVito);
#7 King Fury (Hernandez, McPeek); and #8 Ultimate
Badger (Joe Talamo, Romans).

As
a “Prep Season” race on the “Road to the Kentucky Derby,” the Top 4 finishers
in the Kentucky Jockey Club will receive 10-4-2-1 points, respectively.