Ward's Outadore, Fauci favored in Kentucky Downs Juvenile Turf Sprint

In Saturday's $500,000, Grade 3 Juvenile Turf Sprint at Kentucky Downs, a good way to bet is trainer Wesley Ward, who won the first two runnings of this stakes with fillies.

With 2-year-old fillies now having their stakes on Sunday, Ward has only colts in this 6 1/2-furlong sprint this year but they are the two favorites: Saratoga turf debut winner Outadore (2-1) and Fauci (5-2), who won a Keeneland maiden race on turf and was second in Saratoga’s Skidmore on grass.

Another interesting horse is 9-2 third choice County Final, who won his debut on grass at Churchill Downs then was second in the Bashford Manor (G3) on dirt. Transferred to Hall of Famer Steve Asmussen, County Final romped in Monmouth Park’s off-the-turf Tyro Stakes. Asmussen also entered Cowan, who will try turf for the first time.

Trainer Valerie Lund brings Bodenheimer in from Minnesota, where he won his first start on turf by 11 1/4 lengths and then took Iowa’s Prairie Gold Juvenile on dirt by a neck.

The Juvenile Turf Sprint is the ninth race on Kentucky Downs' Saturday car, with a 5:32 p.m. ET post time.