OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Donegal Momentum was impressive visually as well as from a speed-figure perspective when he won his debut by 8 1/4 lengths on May 16 at Aqueduct. But that was against maidens and sprinting over a sealed, muddy main track. Thursday, Donegal Momentum takes on winners for the first time while stretching out to a one-turn mile over what is likely to be a fast main track in a first-level allowance race that is the co-feature on Aqueduct’s nine-race program. There is also a first-level allowance for females scheduled for turf later on the card. A son of Uncle Mo trained by Tom Morley for Donegal Racing, Donegal Momentum vied three wide, then got into a bit of a pace battle with the well-bred Light the Way in his debut. Donegal Momentum disposed of Light the Way and drew clear with hardly any urging from Javier Castellano, winning geared down. He ran six furlongs in 1:10.30 and earned a 92 Beyer Speed Figure. “I was very impressed,” Morley said. “Every now and again you’re lucky to see things in the morning but they have to reproduce it in the afternoon. It didn’t surprise me. It was more a relief that he did that. He cooled out faster than I did.” Morley believes the added distance should suit Donegal Momentum, produced by the Malibu Moon mare Moon Dash, who was stakes-placed going a mile, albeit on turf. :: Access morning workout reports straight from the tracks and get an edge with DRF Clocker Reports “He works like a horse that will go a distance of ground,” Morley said. “And the exciting thing is when you have a horse with six-furlong speed who appears to have an abundance of stamina, it gives you a real chance of having a good horse.” Only three horses Donegal Momentum defeated on debut have come back to run, with last-place finisher Drunk On Sake winning a maiden $40,000 claimer on turf by 8 1/4 lengths at Saratoga on June 6. Donegal Momentum will break from the rail under Castellano. Among his sternest challengers figures to be Bank Frenzy, a recent 5 1/4-length winner of a New York-bred second-level allowance race for trainer Lisa Lewis on May 26. Following that race, Bank Frenzy was purchased privately by LSU Stables and turned over to trainer Rudy Rodriguez. On Monday, Bank Frenzy worked a half-mile in 49.49 seconds which followed a five-furlong move in 1:00.40 on June 17. “She’s been training straightforward,” Rodriguez said. “Irad [Ortiz Jr.] breezed her last week, she breezed very, very good and we blew her out an easy half-mile this morning. She went beautiful and is ready to go.” Ortiz rides Bank Frenzy from post 4. Khafre is coming off a handy front-running score going a mile for $25,000 claiming for Ray Handal. Lambeth, a son of Arrogate, makes his 3-year-old debut after winning a one-mile maiden race here for Bill Mott last Dec. 31. This allowance goes as the second on a program that begins at 1:05 p.m. Later on the card, Eternal Silence, a Group 1 stakes-placed runner as a 2-year-old in Europe, makes her 4-year-old debut in a 1 1/8-mile allowance on turf. Eternal Silence, a daughter of War Front, has made just one start in the U.S., a sixth-place finish behind Surge Capacity in the Grade 3 Valley View Stakes at Keeneland last October. The Valley View did produce four next-out winners with Surge Capacity coming back to win the Grade 1 Matriarch and runner-up Heavenly Sunday winning the off-the-turf Grade 3 Mrs. Revere. Christophe Clement, who trains Eternal Silence, said he has a small question whether Eternal Silence wants 1 1/8 miles. “Pedigree will tell you she will stay a mile and an eighth, but the way she trains it’s a small question mark,” Clement said. “She’s strong in her races, same in her training.” :: Get the Inside Track with the FREE DRF Morning Line Email Newsletter. Subscribe now.  Clement also sends out In Time, a fifth-place finisher in two starts in this condition for Clement, who adds that this filly would prefer this race to be 1 3/8 miles. Trainer Chad Brown sends out the pair of Hola Gata and Sacred Image, both coming off subpar efforts in their most recent starts. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.