Diamond Oops to shorten up, point to Carter at Aqueduct

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Diamond Oops, fourth in the $3 million Pegasus World Cup last Saturday at Gulfstream, will return to one-turn races for the foreseeable future and is being pointed to the Grade 1 Carter Handicap on April 4 at Aqueduct, said trainer Patrick Biancone.

“We’re going back to six or seven furlongs,” said Biancone. “He won’t run again until the Carter,” a $400,000 race at seven furlongs.

Diamond Oops, a 5-year-old gelding, won the seven-furlong Mr. Prospector at Gulfstream two starts back, earning a 105 Beyer Speed Figure.

Meanwhile, War Story, third in the Pegasus, has been invited to the Dubai World Cup on March 28, said Elizabeth Dobles, who trains the 8-year-old gelding for Imaginary Stables and Glenn Ellis.

“There are a lot of possibilities,” she said. “We’re not sure just yet what we’ll do.”

Dobles said that if War Story doesn’t run in Dubai he would probably point to the $1 million Charles Town Classic on April 18, with perhaps a prep in the Challenger on March 7 at Tampa Bay Downs.