Always Shopping heads roster of 31 nominees for closing- day Bewitch

Repole Stable’s homebred Always Shopping, who has found her niche as a grass marathoner, heads of list of 31 fillies and mares nominated to the 59^th running of the $150,000 Bewitch (G3) going 1½ miles on the turf on Friday, April 23. The Bewitch is the closing-day feature of Keeneland’s Spring Meet.

Trained by Todd Pletcher, Always Shopping has won three of her past five grass starts. Her lone setbacks came by a head in the 1½-mile Rood & Riddle Dowager (G3) here last fall and by a nose to War Like Goddess, another Bewitch nominee, in last month’s Orchid (G3) at Gulfstream Park going 1 3/8 miles.

Entries for the Bewitch will be taken Sunday, April 18.