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Jeremy Plonk: Keeneland Exotics Price Players | Thursday, October 22, 2026

by Jeremy Plonk

October 22, 2026

Each day during the 17-day Keeneland Fall Meet, I’ll spotlight the double-digit morning line prices that you’ll want to consider for your exotics plays. These are based on my top-3 choices in each race and will only appear if they’re in my mix and of significant odds.

Race 4:
#3 Sunfyre (10-1 ML) – One of the weaker maiden special weight casts you’ll see at Keeneland, this second-timer figures to improve some for an Ian Wilkes barn that doesn’t get much first out. That he goes to blinkers might be enough on the stretchout to get interesting inside with rail-riding Brian Hernandez.

Race 5:
#1 Night of Rose (20-1 ML) – Potential rail pace looked good on paper dropping out of the Kentucky Downs Ladies Marathon because that assignment ran head-long into star front-running favorite Stellify, who gutted the field. Nobody like that in here. What’s more? With the turf rail out 30 feet, both of Wednesday’s grass races were won wire-to-wire.

Race 7:
#4 Lobby Rendezvous (12-1 ML) – Trainer Matt Shirer has had back-to-back outstanding Kee Fall Meets with limited starters and he’s got this one in a great spot of her form cycle. She ran huge at Saratoga last summer in her only other second-off-the-layoff bid. She faces all the big power barns here, so the price will be right.

Race 8:
#8 Arrest Me Red (10-1 ML) – Wesley Ward is the king of Keeneland turf sprints and this one has fired big races fresh off the layoff in the past. The barn has 2 in here and this larger-priced offering is most intriguing to me.