Disco Partner, Pure Sensation look to repeat in stakes ahead of Breeders' Cup

ELMONT, N.Y. – Trainer Christophe Clement has laid out a tentative plan to get Disco Partner and Pure Sensation – the first- and third-place finishers from the Grade 2 Jaipur on June 9 – to the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint this fall at Churchill Downs.

Disco Partner, who won the Jaipur for the second straight year, will be pointed to the $150,000 Forbidden Apple at a mile July 14 at Belmont. Disco Partner won the Forbidden Apple last year. Clement mentioned the Belmont Turf Sprint in late September or early October as another target before the Breeders’ Cup. What he does in between is a little less defined. The Grade 2, $200,000 Troy is run on Aug. 5 at Saratoga and could be too quick back for him.

Pure Sensation, meanwhile, likely will make his next start in the Grade 3, $200,000 Parx Dash on July 7. He has won that race in each of the last two years. Pure Sensation likely would then run in the Troy at Saratoga and then go back to Parx on Sept. 3 for the Grade 3 Turf Monster, a race he has won the past two years.

Clement said Pure Sensation cut himself on his left front in the Jaipur but wouldn’t miss any training.

Disco Partner, a 6-year-old son of Disco Rico, and Pure Sensation, a 7-year-old gelding by Zensational, are both owned and bred by Frank and Patricia Generazio. They have combined to win 19 of 59 starts and earned $2,497,860.