Farrell will point to Rachel Alexandra

Farrell came out of her win Saturday in the $150,000 Silverbulletday Stakes in good order and is on course to make the second start of her 3-year-old campaign here Feb. 25 in the Rachel Alexandra Stakes.

“She looks good. She ate real well, doesn’t seem knocked out or anything,” trainer Wayne Catalano said Sunday morning.

Farrell won the Silverbulletday, her first start since a open-lengths win Nov. 26 in the Grade 2 Golden Rod at Churchill Downs, by 2 3/4 lengths. She ran a mile and 70 yards in 1:44.01 and got a 74 Beyer Speed Figure, down from her 80 in the Golden Rod.

Catalano said Farrell would probably walk the shed row for three days before resuming training.

Untapped, who faded to fifth in the Silverbulletday as the race’s second choice, also appeared to have come out of the race in good condition, and she, too, could reappear in the Rachel Alexandra, trainer Steve Asmussen said.

Career-best Beyer for Hawaakom

Hawaakom’s trainer and three-quarters owner Wes Hawley said last week that the 7-year-old gelding was coming into his 2017 debut, Saturday’s $75,000 Louisiana Stakes, in the best shape of his life, and Hawley might well be right. Hawaakom rallied from last into a slow pace and still caught Dazzling Gem to win the Louisiana by three-quarters of a length. He ran 1 1/16 miles on a muddy, sealed track in a snappy 1:44.01 and got a 98 Beyer Speed Figure, the best of his 32-start career.

Hawaakom, by Jazil, won for the eighth time in 32 races. Hawley, who claimed Hawaakom for just $15,000 in November 2014, said the gelding is likely to start next month either in the Razorback Handicap at Oaklawn or in the Mineshaft at Fair Grounds.

Also earning a career-best Beyer on Saturday was Granny’s Kitten, who got a 98 winning the Grade 3 Colonel E.R. Bradley by a neck over Western Reserve. Kitten’s Roar, another turf stakes winner on the card for owners Ken and Sarah Ramsey, trainer Mike Maker, and jockey Miguel Mena, got a 91 Beyer from her nose win over tough-luck Prado’s Sweet Ride in the Marie Krantz Memorial Stakes. Mena also rode Hawaakom to victory Saturday.

Holy Boss, who easily won the Duncan Kenner Stakes, got a 93 Beyer after running six furlongs in 1:10.14.