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Opening weekend at Keeneland, 2021
Saturday s Grade 2, $200,000 Elkhorn Stakes is one of two marathon 1 1/2-mile graded stakes during the Keeneland spring meeting. This race is for males and the Bewitch Stakes next week is for females. Ten horses entered the Elkhorn this year and most have top credentials in similar races.
In terms of career earnings, the field is led by Channel Cat, winner of over $950,000 in his career in similar races. However, the now 6-year-old is returning from three months off and hasn t won since taking the Grade 2 Bowling Green Stakes in August of 2019. Similarly, Cross Border has earned in excess of three-quarters of a million dollars but hasn t won since last July when victorious in the Lubash Stakes. Next there s 2019 Elkhorn runner-up Red Knight, who also captured the similar Grade 3 Sycamore Stakes at Keeneland last fall, and is returning from a five month layoff.
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