Calculator shipping across the country for Carter

Calculator, a graded-stakes-winning 3-year-old of 2015, will ship across the country from Southern California to run in Saturday’s Grade 1, $400,000 Carter Handicap at Aqueduct, trainer Peter Miller confirmed on Sunday.

Calculator is expected to ship here Wednesday along with Dalmore, who is being pointed to Saturday’s Grade 1, $1 million Wood Memorial by trainer Keith Desormeaux.

Calculator, who twice ran second to American Pharoah in Grade 1 stakes at age 2, was sidelined for a year after suffering a non-displaced condylar fracture shortly after winning the Grade 3 Sham Stakes as a maiden in January 2015.

Calculator returned Feb. 13 to win a first-level allowance race at Santa Anita. Following that race, he finished third to Kobe’s Back in the Grade 2 San Carlos, also at Santa Anita. In both those starts, Calculator broke poorly.

“The start definitely cost him the win last time,” Miller said. “Hopefully, he breaks better this time.”

Miller said he chose the Carter because “the timing was good, the distance was good, it’s a Grade 1, big purse.”

“Everything seems to fit,” he said.

Calculator was assigned 117 pounds for the Carter, run at seven furlongs. A field of eight is expected, including Salutos Amigos, the 123-pound highweight, two-time Carter winner Dads Caps (118), 2015 Carter runner-up Green Gratto (117), Stallwalkin’ Dude (117), Majestic Affair (116), Sassicaia (116), and Anchor Down (114).

Trainer Ned Allard had hoped to run Always Sunshine, the runner-up in the Grade 3 Tom Fool, but the horse is based at Parx, where a quarantine put in place last week due to a case of the equine herpesvirus prohibits horses from shipping in and out of that track.