Keeneland barn notes: Sneaky Good heads Beaumont

• SNEAKY GOOD TOPS MIDDLEGROUND CAPITAL BEAUMONT FIELD OF SEVEN
• STREET BEAST HEADLINES FIELD OF 11 FOR UK HEALTHCARE TRANSYLVANIA
• SPEEDY ARCTIC BEAST LOOMS LARGE IN SEVEN-HORSE LAFAYETTE
• PROSPECTIVE FIELDS FOR STAKES ON OPENING SATURDAY

Keeneland barn notes by the track’s publicity staff (Coady Media photo above of Sneaky Good winning her debut last October. 5 at Keeneland)

SNEAKY GOOD TOPS MIDDLEGROUND CAPITAL
BEAUMONT FIELD OF SEVEN

LNJ Foxwoods and NK Racing’s Sneaky Good headlines a field of seven for the 41st running of the $400,000 MiddleGround Capital Beaumont (G2) for 3-year-old fillies going 7 furlongs on the main track.

The MiddleGround Capital Beaumont will go as the seventh race on Friday’s 10-race opening day program with a 4:12 p.m. ET post time. First post is 1 p.m. The card includes four stakes, headlined by the Grade 1 Central Bank Ashland.

Trained by three-time Beaumont winner Brad Cox, Sneaky Good comes into Friday’s race off a third-place finish in the Honeybee (G3) at Oaklawn Park on March 1. Prior to that, she was third in the 7-furlong Forward Gal (G3) at Gulfstream Park in her 2026 debut.

Winner of the Sandpiper at Tampa Bay Downs, Sneaky Good will be ridden by Flavien Prat from post 3. Prat has been aboard all three of Cox’s winners in the Beaumont.

Field for the $400,000 MiddleGround Capital Beaumont (G2),
3-year-old fillies, 7 furlongs, Race 7, 4:12 p.m.

STREET BEAST HEADLINES FIELD OF 11
FOR UK HEALTHCARE TRANSYLVANIA

Midway Racing’s Street Beast, returning to the grass for the first time since a fourth-place finish in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1), heads a field of 11 3-year-olds entered Monday for Friday’s 38th running of the $600,000 UK HealthCare Transylvania (G3).

The UK HealthCare Transylvania will go as the eighth race on Friday’s 10-race opening day program with a 4:44 p.m. ET post time. First post is 1 p.m.

Trained by Ben Colebrook, Street Beast was a 7-length winner of the Global Tote Juvenile Mile (L) at Kentucky Downs prior to his Breeders’ Cup run. This winter, he raced twice over the all-weather surface at Turfway Park. Luan Machado has the mount from post 5.

Trainer Graham Motion, a two-time winner of the race including last year with Test Score, will go for a repeat with Stone Farm, C. Linwood Miles Jr., Ken Wheeler Jr., Lynwood Napier and Deborah Easter’s Proton. 

Winner of the Laurel Futurity last year and runner-up in the Columbia at Tampa Bay Downs to open 2026, Proton will exit post 1 under John Velazquez.

Field for the $600,000 UK HealthCare Transylvania (G3),
3-year-olds, 1 1/16 miles (turf), Race 8, 4:44 p.m.

SPEEDY ARCTIC BEAST LOOMS LARGE IN SEVEN-HORSE LAFAYETTE

Paradise Farms Corp., JP Racing Stable, David Staudacher, Zilla Racing Stables and Jennifer Rice’s Arctic Blast tops a field of seven 3-year-olds entered Monday for Friday’s 78th running of the $400,000 Lafayette (L) going 7 furlongs on the main track.

The Lafayette will go as the fifth race on Friday’s 10-race opening day program with a 3:08 p.m. ET post time. First post is 1 p.m.

Trained by Mike Maker, Arctic Blast has feasted on New York-bred competition winning all four starts at the level including three stakes by a combined 22 ¾ lengths. In his lone venture into open company, Arctic Blast was runner-up in the 11-horse Remington Springboard Mile (L).

Ricardo Santana Jr. has the mount from post 3.

Two other stakes winners are in the field: Joseph Sutton’s Comport and Michael McLoughlin’s Oscar’s Hope.

Trained by Eddie Kenneally, Comport won the Ellis Park Juvenile in August and will be making his first start since a sixth-place finish in the FanDuel Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) Presented by Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance. Tyler Gaffalione has the mount from post 1.

Oscar’s Hope is a two-time stakes winner now trained by Kinnon LaRose. Victorious in the Ozark at Oaklawn Park in his most recent start, Oscar’s Hope will be ridden by Irad Ortiz Jr. from post 7.

Field for the $400,000 Lafayette (L), 3-year-olds, 7 furlongs, Race 5, 3:08 p.m.

PROSPECTIVE FIELDS FOR STAKES ON OPENING SATURDAY

Entries taken Tuesday

$1,250,000 TOYOTA BLUE GRASS (G1) — Class President (trainer Todd Pletcher), Creole Chrome (Joe Sharp), Further Ado (Brad Cox), Great White (John Ennis), Reagan’s Honor (Cherie DeVaux), Talkin (Danny Gargan).

$650,000 RESOLUTE RACING MADISON (G1) — Autumn Evening (Jose D’Angelo), Clicquot (Brendan Walsh), Praying(Robbie Medina), Sterling Silver (Anthony Margotta Jr.). Possible: Mystic Lake (Saffie Joseph Jr.), R Disaster (Joseph).

$500,000 APPALACHIAN (G2) PRESENTED BY JAPAN RACING ASSOCIATION  — Belle of the Barn (Caio Caramori),Imaginationthelady (Walsh), Lion Lake (IRE) (Walsh), Spirit Doll (Joseph), To a Flame (Rusty Arnold). Possible: Alone Time (DeVaux).

$400,000 VALVOLINE GLOBAL SHAKERTOWN (G2) — Clock Tower (Wesley Ward), Full Disclosure (Amzadali Jehaludi), Heart Headed (Sharp), Its Bourbon Thirty (Jeremiah O’Dwyer), Joe Shiesty (Eric Foster), My Boy Prince (Mark Casse), No Nay Hudson (IRE) (Ward), Works for Me (Joe Lee).

$350,000 COMMONWEALTH (G3) — Crazy Mason (Greg Sacco), Multitask (David Jacobson), National Identity (Gargan),Track Mate (Arnold).

NO RACING APRIL 5, EASTER SUNDAY