Bucchero, Bullards Alley represent the short and the long of it for Glyshaw

Bucchero wants to run no more than six furlongs on turf, while Bullards Alley needs at least 1 1/2 miles on grass for his best.

Trainer Tim Glyshaw should have little trouble keeping his stable stars apart next year.

Florida figures into plans for both horses. Bucchero is headed to Ocala for a 30-day break following his close fifth-place finish in the Turf Sprint Championship this past Saturday at Aqueduct, a solid showing that followed two even stronger races: a troubled fourth in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint and a win in the Grade 2 Woodford at Keeneland. It’s uncertain when Bucchero will make his 2018 debut, but Glyshaw said the Indiana-bred 5-year-old horse, campaigned by Ironhorse Racing, will follow a path designed to get him to the BC Turf Sprint at Churchill next November.

Bullards Alley followed up on a spectacular win over soft turf in the Grade 1 Canadian International with a strong sixth-place finish in the BC Turf, a race in which he was beaten only a little more than three lengths by victorious Talismanic. Bullards Alley, who came forward radically under Glyshaw’s care late this year, has just gone back into training at Fair Grounds after a three-week freshening at Churchill, and is being pointed toward the two-mile Allen Jerkens in January at Gulfstream Park.

“It’s kind of a wasted start to run him less than a mile and a half,” Glyshaw said.