Airoforce Trying to Make Amends in $500,000 Spiral Stakes

Airoforce Trying to Make Amends in $500,000 Spiral Stakes

Category : News - Thu 31/03/2016 - 12:23 EDT

On Saturday at Turfway Park, the featured race is the $500,000 Spiral Stakes. Restricted to three-year-olds, the Grade 3 event offers points towards a start in the Kentucky Derby (G1) and will be run at a mile and an eighth on the synthetic main track.

Topping the overflow field of fourteen as the morning line favorite at odds of 3-1 is Airoforce for trainer Mark Casse. A gray son of Colonel John, he was purchased for $350,000 as a yearling and has won three of his five starts. As a two-year-old, he was a graded stakes winner on both turf and dirt. He will be trying to rebound after a disappointing tenth-place finish in the Risen Star Stakes (G2) in his sophomore debut. Albin Jimenez will be aboard and they will break from post position ten.

Azar already a winner on turf and conventional dirt

Second choice at morning line odds of 5-1 is Azar for trainer Todd Pletcher. A dark bay son of Scat Daddy, he sold for $300,000 as a yearling and has been on the board in five of his seven starts. He was a graded stakes winner as a juvenile and will be stepping back up to stakes company after winning an optional claiming race last time out at Gulfstream Park. Manuel Franco will be in the irons and they will break from the outside post.

Ralis trying to regain comeptitive form

Also in the field at morning line odds of 6-1 is Ralis for trainer Doug O’Neill. Bred and owned by Reddam Racing, the bay son of Square Eddie has two wins from eight starts and was a Grade 1 winner at Saratoga last summer. His form has tailed off dramatically since then and he was last seen finishing tenth in the Rebel Stakes (G2).Corey Nakatani will be aboard and they will break from post position eleven.

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