Clocker: Private Prospect has solid drill for Juvenile

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Track: Fast

Weather: Clear

Temperature: 58

ARCADIA, Calif. – Wednesday proved to be another slow day on the Breeders’ Cup workout front, with the monotony of the long morning finally broken when Private Prospect came out after the second renovation break to work six furlongs for the Juvenile.

Weather conditions Wednesday couldn’t have been more ideal, with the skies clear and the temperature climbing from the high 50s at daybreak into the low 70s by the time training hours ended more than four hours later.

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Private Prospect (six furlongs in 1:13.49) – Breezing for the first time locally, the Arlington-Washington Futurity runner-up broke off at the six-furlong pole at a leisurely pace and completed his opening quarter-mile in 25.40 seconds. He began to pick up the pace a bit entering the turn, getting to the top of the stretch in 49.43, then continued on willingly enough to the wire, covering his final quarter in 24.06 while never asked to extend himself by jockey Aaron Gryder. Private Prospect continued out well into the turn, galloping out seven furlongs in 1:27.24.

Parranda, who is running in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf, worked before dawn Wednesday, going five furlongs in 1:01.60, according to track clockers.

Activity will begin to pick up over the next couple of mornings before reaching a full fever pitch by the weekend. Classic contenders Imperative and Moreno are scheduled to breeze Thursday and Friday, respectively. For Moreno, it will be his second work since he arrived from New York. Moreno was disqualified from fourth and placed ninth for angling in and forcing Wicked Strong to clip heels and lose his rider, Rajiv Maragh, in the Grade 1 Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park on Sept. 27.

Trainer Eric Guillot is hopeful that Moreno’s work Friday will be less eventful than his final drill prior to the 2013 Classic, when he was forced to abort the work after three furlongs to avoid the fallen Points Offthebench, who had broken down just before the finish while working for the Sprint. Guillot brought Moreno out an hour later to do it all over again, and the son of Ghostzapper turned in a typically sharp five-furlong work the second time around.

Another shipment of Kentucky- and New York-based horses arrived here Tuesday, including Golden Ticket, Pants On Fire and Palace, one of the favorites in the Sprint.

The two-horse Florida contingent, Fast Anna and Little Alexis, were both on the track shortly after 6:30 a.m. Both turned in high-energy gallops after breezing over the surface for the first time Sunday.