Multiple graded stakes winner AJs High will put his four-race win streak on the link in Saturday's $45,000 Keokuk Stakes.

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ALTOONA, IA—AUGUST 19, 2016—AJs High, a multiple graded stakes winning 4-year-old gelding owned by Michael C. Teel, will make his next start in Saturday’s 400-yard, $45,000 Keokuk Stakes (G3), as Prairie Meadows opens its 2016 Quarter Horse meet with a 10-race card.

Trained by Charley Hunt, AJs High has won 12 of his 17 starts, including six of seven at this track. The gelding has earned $496,006, and he won three stakes during the Remington Park spring meet, including the 400-yard, $100,000 Sooner State Stakes (RG1) for Oklahoma-breds on May 29.

Stormy Smith will ride AJs High from the rail post.

The complete lineup for the Keokuk, in post position order including jockey assignments and morning-line odds--

1. AJs High (Stormy Smith), 9-5
2. I Cant Help It (Jesus Salazar), 12-1
3. Soraya Seis (Dale Beaty), 20-1
4. Elegant Okey (Oscar Delgado), 10-1
5. A Will And Away (David Brown), 10-1
6. Tempting Valor (Jorge Torres), 8-1
7. Mavara Vegas (Cody R. Smith), 12-1
8. Gospel Howdy (Josh Romero), 15-1
9. A Royal Country Man (Cristian Esqueda), 15-1
10. Sudden Separation (Roberto Valero), 8-1.

Tom Lepic’s The Fiscal Cliff, a homebred son of Pyc Paint Your Wagon trained by Shawna Manriquez, is the even-money morning-line favorite in the third heat. Undefeated in four outs at Prairie Meadows, the colt is coming off of a second-place finish, a head behind winner Bf Fooserageous, in the 400-yard, $44,000 Adequan Ruidoso Derby Challenge Stakes on July 2.

The 10 fastest qualifiers will meet in the September 4, $40,000-added Iowa Double Gold Derby.

Saturday’s opening-day program includes five 350-yard Iowa Double Gold Futurity (R) trials.

Champagne Prospect, a brown daughter of Prospect To The Top trained by Brian Muse for owner Ronnie Bowen’s Bowen Arrow Farms, drew post 5 in the first heat. The filly will be making her first start since May 14, when she ran third, 1 3/4 lengths behind winner Sizzlin Stewart, in the 330-yard, $89,000 Old South Futurity at Delta Downs.

The 10 fastest qualifiers will meet in the $50,000-added Iowa Double Gold Futurity final on September 4.

All Prairie Meadows races can be seen at Q-RacingVideo.com.