Stonelea Stable and Bonnie Rye Stable’s Desvio is scheduled to arrive at Keeneland Thursday afternoon for a shot at track history Saturday in the 41st running of the $400,000 VisitLEX Elkhorn (G2).

Winner of the Sycamore (G2) here last fall, Desvio will attempt to become the first horse to win the Sycamore and come back the following spring and win the Elkhorn. Both races are at 1½ miles on the turf.

“He will go to the track Friday morning and walk through the Paddock with a pony,” trainer Madison Meyers said via text. John Velazquez will have the mount from post 2 on Saturday.

Velazquez was aboard last fall when Desvio lit up the toteboard with a $70.90 win payoff for $2 to give Meyers, a Lexington native, her first graded stakes victory. It was the highest stakes payoff of the Fall Meet.

Desvio followed his Sycamore triumph with a third-place finish three weeks later in the Red Smith (G2) to complete his 4-year-old campaign.

“The Elkhorn was the plan all along, but after such a rough winter (in Virginia) I wasn’t sure we’d have him ready in time,” Meyers said of returning in the Elkhorn. “He has come to hand very quickly, much quicker than I expected, so we are happy with where we are.”

Desvio returned to the work tab March 11 at the Middleburg Training Center, where he had four works before a half-mile breeze at Laurel last Thursday.

“I have a barn at Laurel, so I sent him up to work over the deeper track so I could really get a line on him,” Meyers said. “He worked very well (:48.80) and kept galloping out, cooled out like it was nothing, so here we are.”