Hog Creek Hustle makes 2021 debut in Commonwealth

Grade 1 winner Hog Creek Hustle leads a field of seven 4-year-olds and up entered Tuesday for Saturday’s 34th running of the $200,000 Commonwealth (G3) at 7 furlongs on Keeneland's main track.

The Commonwealth will go as the seventh race on Saturday afternoon’s 11-race program with a 4:24 p.m. EDT post time.

Trained by Vickie Foley and owned by Something Special Racing, Hog Creek Hustle took the Woody Stephens (G1) in 2019 and has started in the past two runnings of the Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1). Corey Lanerie has the mount Saturday and will break from post position 7.

Chief among the rivals to Hog Creek Hustle is Lane’s End Racing and Hronis Racing’s multiple graded stakes-placed Flagstaff.

Trained by John Sadler, Flagstaff comes into the Commonwealth off a third-place finish in the Hot Springs (L) at Oaklawn Park on March 13 in which he trailed C Z Rocket and Whitmore, the top two finishers here last fall in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint. Joel Rosario has the mount and will break from post 1.