Power Alert Seeks Repeat Victory in Twin Spires Turf Sprint
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AJ Suited Racing Stable and trainer Brian Lynch’s Power Alert (AUS) will attempt to become the first repeat winner of the $150,000 Twin Spires Turf Sprint Presented by TwinSpires.com (GIII) when he faces 12 rivals Friday.
Set as the eighth race on Friday’s program, post time for the 22nd running of the five-furlong race is 3:02 p.m.
Power Alert comes into Friday’s race off an eighth-place finish in the Shakertown (GII) at Keeneland on April 9. In winning last year’s edition of the Twin Spires Turf Sprint, Power Alert established the stakes record of :55.17.
Julien Leparoux, who was aboard for last year’s victory, has the mount Friday and will break from post position one.
One of Power Alert’s chief rivals figures to be Mrs. John Magnier, Michael Tabor and Derrick Smith’s Hootenanny who is trained by Wesley Ward.
Winner of the 2014 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (GI) at Santa Anita, Hootenanny came off a 9 ½-month layoff to run second at Woodbine in the Jacques Cartier on April 9. John Velazquez has the mount and will exit post position seven.
The field for the Twin Spires Turf Sprint, with riders and weights from the inside, is: Power Alert (AUS) (Leparoux, 122 pounds), Summation Time (Javier Castellano, 120), Mongol Bull (Brian Hernandez Jr., 120), Rocket Heat (Flavien Prat, 120), American Sailor (Luis Saez, 120), Alsvid (Chris Landeros, 120), Hootenanny (Velazquez, 120), Weast Hill (Joe Rocco Jr., 120), Speightsong (Corey Lanerie, 120), Latent Revenge (Florent Geroux, 120), Something Extra (Shaun Bridgmohan, 120), Guns Loaded (Mario Gutierrez, 122) and Sylven Park (Sophie Doyle, 120).
Source: Churchill Downs
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