Fashionably Fast looks sharp in drill for Tiznow

ARCADIA, Calif. – The top California-bred sprinter Fashionably Fast continued his strong training in preparation for a bid at a two-turn race with a sharp drill Sunday morning at Santa Anita, when he went five furlongs in 1:01 on the training track under his regular rider, Tiago Pereira.

Winner of five straight, most recently the Cal Cup Sprint on Jan. 18, Fashionably Fast is scheduled to make his next start in the Tiznow Stakes on March 1. It’s against fellow Cal-breds, but is at one mile.

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“We need to answer the route question,” said trainer Dean Pederson, who has done a sensational job with the now 5-year-old gelding. “I don’t think he’ll have a problem with it, but you don’t know until they do it. We’ll see how it plays out.”

Fashionably Fast tried two turns once previously, but the race is a throw out. It was on turf – a surface on which he is 0 for 3 – back in Dec. 2018, and he was off for nearly six months after that race.

Kenny Black hitting the road for Miller

Kenny Black, the former jockey turned trainer turned assistant, will be on an international jaunt over the next couple of months. He said he had been hired by trainer Peter Miller to assist with Miller’s runners who compete on the Saudi Cup card on Feb. 29 and the Dubai World Cup card on March 28.

Among the horses Miller has mentioned as being ticketed for those races are Billy Batts, Gray Magician, and Captain Scotty, who comes off a win in the Grade 2 Palos Verdes for older sprinters at Santa Anita on Jan. 25.