Elkhorn winner Unitarian returns for Sycamore

Pletcher will also saddle Red Rifle, who took the Maxxam Gold Cup at Sam

Houston on dirt last March and who has a win and two seconds from three grass

starts since July. Most recently, the four-year-old captured the $98,000 Yankee

Affair, an overnight stakes over a mile and a half on the Belmont Park turf. He

is the potential lone speed.

Also lining up for the Sycamore is Tricky Hat, third in the 2013 Sycamore and

winner of the $100,000 John's Call at Saratoga on August 6. Fifth behind

Unitarian in the Elkhorn, the Shug McGaughey charge occupied that same position

last out in the Kentucky Turf Cup.

Holiday Star, runner-up by a nose to Tricky Hat in the John's Call, missed by

the same margin in the PTHA President's Cup at Parx last time. He's placed just

once in three previous attempts on the Keeneland turf for trainer Graham Motion.

Also looking for their first Keeneland turf success are Aldous Snow, Grade 3

scorer in the Singspiel at Woodbine in July prior to sixth-place efforts in the

Sky Classic and Northern Dancer Turf; multiple Grade 3 veteran Mister Marti

Gras, a neck third in the Washington Park Handicap at Arlington last time; Grade

2-placed stakes winner and recent claiming mainstay Cozy Kitten; and the

stakes-placed Villandry.

Debuting at Keeneland on Thursday is St. Albans Boy, who followed up a

second-level allowance score going 1 3/8 miles at Saratoga with a narrow defeat

in the Laurel Turf Cup on September 27.

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