Susan and Jim Hill's Phantom Currency and Wolfe Racing and Hugh Robertson's Two Emmys top a field of nine horses entered Wednesday for Saturday's 37th running of the $350,000 Elkhorn (G2) for 4-year-olds and up going 1 1/2 miles on the Keeneland grass.
The Elkhorn will go as Saturday's ninth race with a 5:16 p.m. ET post time. First post Saturday is 1 p.m.
Trained by Brian Lynch, Phantom Currency returned to the races after more than year layoff to post a wire-to-wire victory in the Appleton (G3) at Gulfstream Park on April 2. Prior to that, he won his only two starts of 2021 highlighted by a front-running score in the Mac Diarmida (G2).
Irad Ortiz Jr. has the mount on Phantom Currency and will break from post position four.
Two Emmys comes into Saturday's race off a 2½-length wire-to-wire victory in the Muniz Memorial Classic (G2) Presented by Horse Racing Nation at Fair Grounds on March 26. Winner of the Mr. D. (G1) last summer at Arlington, Two Emmys was caught at the wire here last fall in the Sycamore (G3) going the 1½-mile distance.
Trained by Mac Robertson, Two Emmys will be ridden by James Graham and break from post position three.
The field for the Elkhorn, with riders and weights from the rail, is:
- Bemma's Boy (Umberto Rispoli, 118 pounds)
- Sole Volante (Julien Leparoux, 118)
- Two Emmys (Graham, 118)
- Phantom Currency (Ortiz Jr., 118)
- Channel Maker (Luis Saez, 118)
- Tiberius Mercurius (Tyler Gaffalione, 118)
- Cullum Road (Joe Rocco Jr., 118)
- Bama Breeze (Corey Lanerie, 118)
- Another Mystery (Flavien Prat, 118)
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