(Clicquot returns in Resolute Racing Madison Stakes / Photo by Coady Media)

From the Keeneland Media Team / Amy Owens:

  • CLICQUOT HEADLINES FIELD OF EIGHT FOR RESOLUTE RACING MADISON
  • IMAGINATIONTHELADY MARQUEE ATTRACTION IN FIELD OF 11 FOR APPALACHIAN PRESENTED BY JAPAN RACING ASSOCIATION
  • BEAR RIVER TOPS DEEP VALVOLINE GLOBAL SHAKERTOWN FIELD
  • CRAZY MASON TOPS FIELD OF SEVEN FOR COMMONWEALTH

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CLICQUOT HEADLINES FIELD OF EIGHT FOR RESOLUTE RACING MADISON

X-Men Racing, Madaket Stables, SF Racing and Blue Horseshoe Racing’s Clicquot tops a field of eight fillies and mares entered Tuesday for Saturday’s 25th running of the $650,000 Resolute Racing Madison (G1) going 7 furlongs on the main track.

The Resolute Racing Madison will go as the afternoon’s ninth race with a 5:16 p.m. ET post time.

Trained by Brendan Walsh, Clicquot will be making her 2026 debut after closing 2025 with a fourth-place finish in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1). Winner of the Cotillion (G1), Clicquot will be ridden by Flavien Prat from post 3.

Also making her first start since a Breeders’ Cup run is Newtown Anner Stud’s Praying. Trained by Robbie Medina, Praying won the Thoroughbred Club of America (G2) here last fall before a seventh-place finish in the PNC Bank Breeders’ Cup Filly and & Mare Sprint (G1).

Joel Rosario has the mount from post 7.

Field for the $650,000 Resolute Racing Madison (G1),
4-year-olds and up, fillies and mares, 7 furlongs, Race 9, 5:16 p.m.

Post Horse Trainer Jockey Weight
1 Eclatant Brad Cox Irad Ortiz Jr. 123
2 Sterling Silver Anthony Margotta Jr. Jose Ortiz 123
3 Clicquot Brendan Walsh Flavien Prat 123
4 Ragtime Bill Mott John Velazquez 123
5 Grand Job Bill Mott Junior Alvarado 123
6 R Disaster Saffie Joseph Jr. Tyler Gaffalione 123
7 Praying Robbie Medina Joel Rosario 123
8 Mystic Lake Saffie Joseph Jr. Luis Saez 123

IMAGINATIONTHELADY MARQUEE ATTRACTION IN FIELD OF 11 FOR APPALACHIAN PRESENTED BY JAPAN RACING ASSOCIATION

Mark Dobbin’s Imaginationthelady, winner of the Jessamine (G2) Presented by Keeneland Sales, tops a field of 11 3-year-old fillies entered Tuesday for Saturday’s 38th running of the $500,000 Appalachian (G2) Presented by Japan Racing Association going a mile on the turf.

The Appalachian Presented by Japan Racing Association will go as the afternoon’s eighth race with a 4:44 p.m. ET post time.

Trained by Brendan Walsh, Imaginationthelady finished fourth of 12 in the John Deere Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1) at Del Mar to close her 2025 campaign. Tyler Gaffalione has the mount Saturday from post 10.

Walsh also will send out Emcee Stable’s Lion Lake (IRE), winner of the Herecomesthebride (G3) at Gulfstream Park in her most recent start. John Velazquez has the mount from post 8.

Field for the $500,000 Appalachian (G2) Presented by Japan Racing Association,
3-year-old fillies, 1 mile (turf), Race 8, 4:44 p.m.

Post Horse Trainer Jockey Weight
1 Spirit Doll Saffie Joseph Jr. Luan Machado 118
2 Alone Time Cherie DeVaux Jose Ortiz 118
3 Faithful Departed Grant Forster Jareth Loveberry 118
4 To a Flame Rusty Arnold Axel Concepcion 118
5 Kokomotion Whit Beckman Junior Alvarado 118
6 Storm’s Wake Brian Lynch Joel Rosario 118
7 Just Aloof Chad Brown Flavien Prat 118
8 Lion Lake (IRE) Brendan Walsh John Velazquez 118
9 Sister Troienne Brian Lynch Irad Ortiz Jr. 118
10 Imaginationthelady Brendan Walsh Tyler Gaffalione 120
11 Counterbalance Michael McCarthy Luis Saez 118

BEAR RIVER TOPS DEEP VALVOLINE GLOBAL SHAKERTOWN FIELD

Charles Marquis’ Bear River, winner of the Kentucky Mint Turf Sprint (G2) at Kentucky Downs, heads a deep field of 12 plus two also-eligibles for Saturday’s 30th running of the $400,000 Valvoline Global Shakertown (G2) for 3-year-olds and up going 5 ½ furlongs in the grass.

The Valvoline Global Shakertown will go as the afternoon’s 10th race with a 5:49 p.m. ET post time.

Trained by Keith Desormeaux, the $1.7 million earner comes into the Shakertown off two third-place finishes in listed stakes at Fair Grounds in which he chased Saturday rivals Usually Wrong and Mondogetsbuckets.

James Graham has the call on Bear River from post 5 with Tyler Gaffalione on Mondogetsbuckets from post 7 and Isaac Castillo on Usually Wrong from post 12.

 

Field for the $400,000 Valvoline Global Shakertown (G2),
3-year-olds and up, 5½ furlongs (turf), Race 10, 5:49 p.m.

Post Horse Trainer Jockey Weight
1 Clock Tower Wesley Ward Walter Rodriguez 122
2 My Boy Prince Mark Casse Jose Ortiz 122
3 Its Bourbon Thirty Jeremiah O’Dwyer Luan Machado 122
4 Yellow Card Michael McCarthy Flavien Prat 122
5 Bear River Keith Desmormeaux James Graham 122
6 Heart Headed Joe Sharp Irad Ortiz Jr. 122
7 Mondogetsbuckets Chris Block Tyler Gaffalione 122
8 Litigation Brian Lynch Mario Gutierrez 122
9 No Nay Hudson (IRE) Wesley Ward Joel Rosario 124
10 Rezasrolex Joe Orseno Edgard Zayas 122
11 Joe Shiesty Eric Foster Fernando De La Cruz 122
12 Usually Wrong Robertino Diodoro Isaac Castillo 122
13/AE Works for Me Joe Lee Luis Saez 122
14/AE Full Disclosure Amzadali Jehaludi Jose Morelos 122

 

CRAZY MASON TOPS FIELD OF SEVEN FOR COMMONWEALTH

Donna Wright and Reeves Thoroughbred Racing’s Grade 2 winner Crazy Mason heads a field of seven entered Tuesday for Saturday’s 39th running of the $350,000 Commonwealth (G3) for 4-year-olds and up going 7 furlongs on the main track.

The Commonwealth will go as the afternoon’s seventh race with a 4:12 p.m. ET post time.

Trained by Greg Sacco, Crazy Mason won the 2025 Carter (G2) Presented by NYRA Bets and has placed in four graded stakes in New York since that victory. Irad Ortiz Jr. has the mount from post 2.

To his inside from post 1 is Repole Stable’s Be You for trainer Todd Pletcher. Winner of the Toboggan (L) in his most recent start and owning a 4-3-1-0 record since returning from a 16-month layoff here last fall, Be You will be ridden by John Velazquez.

Field for the Commonwealth (G3), 4-year-olds and up, 7 furlongs, Race 7, 4:12 p.m.

Post Horse Trainer Jockey Weight
1 Be You Todd Pletcher John Velazquez 118
2 Crazy Mason Greg Sacco Irad Ortiz Jr. 118
3 Track Mate Rusty Arnold Axel Concepcion 118
4 Dr. Saikali Ed Moger Jr. Jose Ortiz 118
5 National Identity Danny Gargan Joel Rosario 118
6 Multitask David Jacobson Tyler Gaffalione 118
7 Saudi Crown Brad Cox Flavien Prat 118