From the Turfway Park Media Team / Kevin Kerstein:

DEBUT WINNER HOMETOWN BOUND SLATED AS 2-1 FAVORITE IN SATURDAY’S $125,000 TURFWAY PREVUE

Colts Neck Stables’ debut winner Hometown Bound is set to face six newly-turned 3-year-olds entered in Saturday’s 31st running of the $125,000 Turfway Prevue at Turfway Park Racing & Gaming.

The Turfway Prevue, run at 6 ½ furlongs, is the featured event on Saturday’s nine-race card and will go as Race 6 at 8:25 p.m. (all times Eastern). First post is 5:55 p.m.

Trained by Jorge Duarte Jr., Hometown Bound was a winner at first asking on Nov. 8 at Laurel while upsetting a field of 10 2-year-olds by three lengths at odds of 7-1. A gray son of Mitole, Hometown Bound shipped to Turfway Park in early December from his owner’s New Jersey-based training center. Since then, he’s recorded three local works including a bullet five-furlong move in 1:00.40 on Dec. 20, the fastest of 70 recorded works at the distance. Jockey Victor Carrasco will have the riding assignment from post No. 5.

Saturday’s field also includes several horses will stakes experience including Midway Racing’s Hickory Tree Stakes winner Trendsetter; Rivera Racing Stables’ Display Stakes (Listed) winner Jupiter; Ken Ramsey’s Pulpit Stakes (Listed) fourth-place finisher Shipmate and Calumet Farm’s Maryland Juvenile fourth-place finisher Sometime.

The field for the Turfway Prevue from the rail out (with jockey, trainer and morning line odds):

  • Blessed Warrior (Santiago Gonzalez, Michel Douihy, 30-1)
  • Shipmate (Miguel Vazquez, Nolan Ramsey, 5-2)
  • Sometime (Dylan Machado, Mark Simms Jr., 8-1)
  • Trendsetter (Luan Machado, Ben Colebrook, 3-1)
  • Hometown Bound (Carrasco, Duarte, 2-1)
  • Jupiter (Alexander Chavez, Nestor Rivera, 7-2)
  • Rawayana (Alex Achard, Gustavo Delgado, 20-1)