Trainer Todd Pletcher had a plane to catch. So the action started early, before dawn, at the Palm Beach Downs training center on Saturday where Pletcher worked three of his Kentucky Derby candidates -- Materiality, Stanford, and Itsaknockout -- shortly after which he boarded a private jet which got him to Lexington in time to see one of his leading Derby hopefuls, Carpe Diem, breeze at Keeneland later that morning.
Saturday morning, on a glorious spring morning at Belmont Park, Tencendur showed tractability in a half-mile workout over the main track that Daily Racing Form timed in 47.16 seconds. The work was the fastest of 26 at the distance, according to the Belmont clockers.
Little Miss Julia (#6, ML 6-1) will return to action in Saturday's ninth race at Gulfstream Park, a six-furlong optional claimer. It will be her first start since a second-place finish by 2 3/4 lengths in a six-furlong race Feb. 20 at Gulfstream Park. The first-, fourth-, and fifth-place finishers from that optional claimer came back to win their next starts.
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Yonkers Raceway Friday night hosted the fifth and final preliminary round of the Blue Chip Matchmaker of Open Pacing Mares. One lonesome, $40,000 division attracted six lasses, with odds-on Camille (George Brennan, $3) barely holding sway over Krispy Apple (Tim Tetrick) in 1:53.
Deceptive Vision, making her first start in six months, was both lucky and good Friday in posting a narrow victory in the Grade 3, $100,000 Doubledogdare Stakes at Keeneland.
Ten juveniles by 10 different sires tied for the fastest one-furlong breeze at :10 seconds during the fifth session of the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co. spring 2-year-olds in training sale’s under-tack show.
Cozmic One, the first foal out of 2010 Horse of the Year Zenyatta, finished last of six in a one-mile maiden race for 3-year-olds in Friday’s second race at Santa Anita, never threatening upset winner Tried and True.
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