Soup and Sandwich Takes On Eight Foes In Saturday's Perryville

Live Oak Plantation’s Soup and Sandwich, unraced since the $3 million Kentucky Derby (G1) Presented by Woodford Reserve in May, headlines a field of nine 3-year-olds entered Wednesday for Saturday’s 13^th running of the Perryville going 7 furlongs on the main track.

The Perryville is scheduled as the seventh race on Saturday’s 10-race program with a 4:12 p.m. ET post time. First post Saturday is 1 p.m.

Trained by Mark Casse, Soup and Sandwich won his first two career starts and was second in the Florida Derby (G1) before his run in the Kentucky Derby. Tyler Gaffalione will have the mount Saturday and break from post position one.

Looming as one of the main threats to Soup and Sandwich is Roseland Farm Stable’s Pickin’ Time.

Trained by Kelly Breen, Pickin’ Time has returned to sprinting and enters Saturday’s race off a runner-up effort to Jackie’s Warrior in the Gallant Bob (G2) at Parx on Sept. 25. Corey Lanerie has the mount and will exit post position five.

The field for the Perryville, with riders and weights from the inside, is: Soup and Sandwich (Gaffalione, 118 pounds), Boca Boy (Marcelino Pedroza Jr., 118), Ram (Rafael Bejarano, 118), He’smyhoneybadger (Florent Geroux, 118), Pickin’ Time (Lanerie, 120), Pipeline (John Velazquez, 118), Irish Unity (Ricardo Santana Jr., 118), Cool Quest (Julien Leparoux, 118), Runway Magic (Brian Hernandez Jr., 118).