Horses nominated to take part in Hollywood Gaming's first Steel Valley Sprint

AUSTINTOWN — Thirty 3-year-old horses were nominated to the inaugural running of the $200,000 Steel Valley Sprint, including multiple Graded Stakes winners and several horses that competed in the Breeders Cup Sprint and Breeders Cup Turf Sprint at Keeneland.

The six-furlong Steel Valley Sprint will be run Nov. 23 and is the richest race in of Hollywood Gaming at Mahoning Valley Race Course’s history.

The race is part of the Penn Gaming Racing Challenge, a series of black type events created in 2014 that is divided into six divisions based on race type and contested at various Penn Gaming Race Tracks.

Among the most accomplished 3-year-olds nominated for the Steel Valley Sprint are Grade 2 winner’s Ready for Rye, trained by Tom Albertrani and March, trained by Chad Brown. Other accomplished nominees include Limousine Liberal, a lightly raced son of Successful Appeal who finished second behind expected Sprint Champion Runhappy in the Grade 1 Kings Bishop at Saratoga this past August and the Michael Tomlinson-trained Barbados, a Grade 3 winner with multiple Graded Stakes placing’s this year to his credit.

Two other horses that competed on Breeders Cup weekend were nominated to the Steel Valley Sprint are Hebbronville for trainer Lynn Whiting who won the Perryville Stakes on day two of the Breeders Cup, and Joe Franklin, who finished off the board in the Breeders Cup Turf Sprint for David Jacobson, the leading trainer in wins on the NYRA circuit the past three years.

Entries for both the Steel Valley Sprint and the Hollywood Gaming Mahoning Distaff will be taken Wednesday.