Former Shakertown winners face off in Saturday's edition

Bound for Nowhere and Imprimis, respective winners of the 2018 and 2019 runnings of the Grade 2 Shakertown, headline a field of 13 3-year-olds and up entered Tuesday for Saturday’s 25th edition of the $200,000 race going 5 1/2 furlongs on the grass at Keeneland.

The Shakertown will go as the eighth race on Saturday afternoon’s 11-race program with a 4:57 p.m. EDT post time.

Owned and trained by Wesley Ward, Bound for Nowhere was caught late in the past two runnings of the Shakertown, finishing a neck behind Imprimis in 2019 when running second and a neck behind Leinster and Totally Boss in last year’s running, which was his most recent start. Joel Rosario has the mount and will break from post position 13.

Trained by Joe Orseno and owned by Breeze Easy, Imprimis has a victory and a runner-up finish in his 2021 starts. He ended last season with a troubled trip in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint at Keeneland in which he finished 13th. Paco Lopez has the mount Saturday and will exit post position 2.

Soaring Free (2004-2005) is the only two-time winner of the Shakertown.