Dutrow keeps Outsource at mile for now
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OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Trainer Rick Dutrow believes the best of his New York-bred 3-year-old Outsource will be seen when he’s able to get him out farther in distance. For now, however, Dutrow will have to be content running him at one mile against a modest group in Friday’s featured first-level allowance/optional $80,000 claimer at Aqueduct.
Outsource, a son of Honor A. P., is coming off a 1 1/2-length victory in a one-mile maiden race for New York-breds on March 2. He didn’t run particularly fast but he grinded out the win, his first in four starts.
“He wants to go long,” Dutrow said. “This is going a mile; not thrilled about it, but he’s doing good, he’s ready to run within the time frame. We figured we would have to run him instead of waiting around for a long race that he’s going to fit in.”
Outsource does seem to have improved some with the addition of blinkers, though it may have equally been the soft early pace that had him closer to the front last out than he had previously been.
There is the prospect of a wet track on Friday. Outsource finished sixth on a muddy track in his debut, but it was at 6 1/2 furlongs and it was his first career start.
Mo for the King was talented enough to win his debut going seven furlongs against nine rivals here on Feb. 21. Mo for the King, a son of King for a Day, appeared to idle in midstretch before being re-energized when two horses came him to him at the eighth pole.
“I had heart failure at the eighth pole,” trainer David Duggan said. “I didn’t know if he ran out of training or if he’s no good. It was a nice surprise. We knew from a greeness perspective he needed the run. . . . We have license to improve with just the one run and we’ve done that. He’s a little more in tune now.”
One horse Mo for the King beat in that maiden race was First Pitch, who came back on March 23 to win a 1 1/8-mile race by 4 1/2 lengths at odds of 50-1. First Pitch is coupled with Corvus as both are trained by Jose Jimenez for R T Racing Stable. Corvus, coming off double-digit-length losses in stakes, drops back into a statebred allowance. The last time he ran in such a race, he finished second, 12 1/2 lengths behind Sand Devil, who came out of that Jan. 2 race to win the Damon Runyon Stakes for New York-breds.
Buttah has seemed to improve with the addition of blinkers for Gary Sciacca. He was fourth going six furlongs in this condition on Feb. 23, a race that produced two next-out winners, and then was second to Super Swift going 6 1/2 furlongs on March 23. He finished behind Sand Devil and Corvus in the aforementioned Jan. 2 race in his lone try at one mile.
Swift Magic gets Lasix for the first time and drops out of a fourth-place finish in the Gander Stakes. He did win a one-mile maiden race on Jan. 4 at odds of 21-1 for trainer George Weaver.
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