Debut winner Candy Crew to stick with sprints

At a time of year when many ambitions for 2-year-olds focus on races around two turns, there are more modest goals for Candy Crew.

Candy Crew won a six-furlong maiden race in his debut Sunday at Los Alamitos, drawing off in the final furlong to prevail by 3 3/4 lengths in 1:10.59. Owners Pete and Kosta Hronis and trainer John Sadler intend to keep Candy Crew sprinting.

“He’s not bred to go on,” Sadler said. “I think he’ll go up to six or seven furlongs.”

Sadler said Candy Crew could run in the $70,000 Speakeasy Stakes at six furlongs Oct. 15 at Santa Anita and the Grade 3 Bob Hope Stakes at seven furlongs Nov. 11 at Del Mar.

Candy Crew, by Twirling Candy, was purchased for $80,000 at the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co.’s auction of 2-year-olds in training in April.

Two trainers fined

Trainers Robert Lucas and Mike Machowsky were sanctioned by the Los Alamitos stewards last weekend for infractions involving their runners.

Machowsky was fined $750 for failing to note that the first-time starter Mr. Fullerton was racing as a gelding Sept. 3 at Del Mar. Mr. Fullerton finished third in a maiden claimer that day. The public was notified about three hours before race time that Mr. Fullerton was a gelding.

Lucas was fined $500 after Fans on the Run tested in excess of the permitted level of flunixin, an anti-inflammatory, after finishing second in a claiming race July 8 at Los Alamitos.