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Woodbine Mohawk Park: Analysis for Friday 5/29
Kevin Plowcha's analysis of the Friday 5/29 card at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
Kevin PlowchaMay 27, 2026
Kevin Plowcha's analysis of the Friday 5/29 card at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
The only time the veteran Australian sprinter Jimmysstar has not started in a Group 1 in the last eight months occurred in early November when he won the Russell Balding Stakes. Otherwise, Jimmysstar has started in six consecutive Group 1 sprints, beginning with a third-place finish in the $13.09 million Everest Stakes last October. The streak will extend to seven straight appearances in Group 1 races when Jimmysstar starts in Saturday’s $713,300 Kingsford Smith Cup at 6 1/2 furlongs at Eagle Farm in Brisbane.
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Barbadian Runner, a six-time stakes winner last year, will return to Laurel Park in a $56,000 allowance on Saturday.
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Formidable Man may have a familiar summer schedule at Del Mar in coming months after winning his first start of 2026 in Monday’s Grade 1 Shoemaker Mile on turf at Santa Anita.
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Percy's Bar had her first work since racing in the Kentucky Oaks when she breezed a half-mile May 24 at Keeneland – but toward what end, trainer Ben Colebrook isn't yet certain.
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Ian Wilkes trains the best 1 1/2-mile grass horse in North America, Burnham Square, but on Friday at Churchill will try to win the co-featured seventh race on the other end of the turf spectrum. In the turf sprint, Wilkes sends out Justiqueso over 5 1/2 furlongs in a female-restricted second-level allowance race with an $80,000 claiming option.
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Wesley Ward could have seven chances next month to win his first Royal Ascot race since 2021. Ward pioneered sending American horses to Royal Ascot, winning his first race there in 2009 long before the June meeting became a fashionable destination for a wide swath of American horse people.
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While trainer Jose D'Angelo continues to be based primarily at the Palm Meadows training center in South Florida, he will be at Saratoga early next month, where he'll send out 2026 Breeders' Cup Sprint winner Bentornato in the Grade 3 True North Stakes on June 6.
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For a horse who posted Beyer Speed Figures between 84 and 97 in all seven starts last season, it's hard to believe Hop Sing is still eligible for the nonwinners-of-two allowance condition.
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Trainer Mark Casse said he didn't know if Final Accord was a true miler, but he knows the 3-year-old filly isn't a 5 1/2-furlong sprinter. While he waits for the ideal one-turn race to come along, his filly keeps competing and should be a contender in the $150,000 Penn Oaks on Friday at Penn National.