Bishops Bay possible for Cigar Mile

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Bishops Bay, winner of the Grade 3 Forty Niner Stakes on Nov. 2, will be strongly considered for the Grade 2, $500,000 Cigar Mile here on Dec. 6, trainer Brad Cox said.

Bishops Bay, who won the Forty Niner by three-quarters of a length over Nelson Avenue, is now 2 for 2 going a one-turn mile at Aqueduct having also captured the Grade 3 Westchester here in the spring. Overall, Bishops Bay is 8 for 12 with victories in the Grade 3 Salvator Mile at Monmouth and the American Pharoah Stakes at Oaklawn.

“We have to take a good look at it. He came out of it in good order,” Cox said. “Breeze him back a couple of times. It’s the logical spot. He’s a hard-trying horse.”

Cox was less certain where he would run back My World, the 3 1/2-length winner of the Nashua Stakes for 2-year-olds on Nov. 1. My World, a son of Essential Quality, earned a 79 Beyer Speed Figure for the effort, his first race at one mile. The Grade 2, $250,000 Remsen on Dec. 6 is run at 1 1/8 miles.

“My World, I thought he ran really well,” Cox said. “He was hitting his best stride the last sixteenth. He pulled away from the runner-up the last sixteenth of a mile. I think it had a lot to do with that stallion, the farther they go the better they should get. We will see. We’ll nominate to the Remsen, not sure that’s where we’ll end up.”

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