Black Type Thoroughbreds, Swinbank Stables, Steve Adkisson, Christopher Dunn and Anthony Spinazzola’s Sacred Wish goes after her second Grade 1 victory Saturday when she tackles a strong field in the 37th running of the $650,000 Jenny Wiley (G1) for fillies and mares going 1 1/16 miles on the Keeneland turf course.

“She shipped in great, Paddock-schooled well and keeps improving,” said Blair Golen, George Weaver’s assistant who accompanies Sacred Wish when she hits the road from Weaver’s main bases in Florida and New York.

The lone Grade 1 winner and millionaire in the field of nine, Sacred Wish comes into the Jenny Wiley off a strong runner-up effort to Saturday rival Be Your Best (IRE) in the TAA Pegasus World Cup Filly and Mare Turf Invitational (G2) presented by SirDavis American Whisky.

“She ran excellent in the Pegasus and closed well that day and just missed,” Golen said. “Johnny (jockey John Velazquez) and her are like a match made in heaven.”

Velazquez, who will be aboard Saturday, had the mount in the Pegasus and in Sacred Wish’s victory over three-time Keeneland Grade 1 winner Gina Romantica in the Matriarch (G1) at Del Mar in December to close her 2024 campaign.

Sacred Wish made her first seven starts on dirt and then made the move to the grass.

“That is a luxury at Saratoga that you can train on the turf,” Golen said. “She breezed excellent the first time on it.”

Less than three weeks after that initial breeze, Sacred Wish won the Winter Memories (L) at the Belmont At Aqueduct meet with Velazquez up.

She has stayed on the grass, where she has compiled an 11-3-4-2 record. On Saturday, she might contend with some soft going after a week of rain in Lexington.

“We are going to find out (if she can handle it),” Golen said. “She did OK on sloppy sealed tracks, but she is a much better horse now than she was then.”