Fall Highweight runner-up Green Light Go works half-mile

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Green Light Go, beaten a head by Hopeful Treasure in the Grade 3 Fall Highweight on Nov. 28, worked a half-mile in 50.31 seconds Friday morning over the Belmont Park training track. What he is training toward has not yet been decided.

Green Light Go is not nominated to next Sunday’s $100,000 Gravesend. In addition to the race being just three weeks after the Fall Highweight, Jerkens noted that he didn’t want to run Green Light Go six furlongs again. He said he only ran the horse in the Fall Highweight because there was nothing else around.

One possible option is the Grade 3, $150,000 Toboggan Stakes at seven furlongs on Jan. 30.

“We’re not planning on running him a whole lot during the winter, we want to save him for the spring,” Jerkens said. “I wasn’t planning on the Fall Highweight but it was the only thing that was going so we ended up running him in it and he ran good.”

The Fall Highweight was Green Light Go’s first start for Jerkens since he finished second in the Roar Stakes at Gulfstream Park in May 2020. In 2019, when Jerkens first trained him, Green Light Go won the Grade 2 Saratoga Special and was favored in the Grade 1 Champagne, where he finished second to Tiz the Law.

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In the winter of 2021, Green Light Go was with Jerry Hollendorfer at Oaklawn Park, where he went 1 for 4. He then went to Canada, where he finished last of six in the Grade 3 Vigil Stakes at Woodbine.

“He’s changed a lot since I had him as a 2-year-old,” Jerkens said. “He used to have real early lick when I first had him, doesn’t seem like he’s got that anymore, which is fine. That’s why I think seven-eighths to a mile around the one turn should be good for him.”