Get Jets, Fourstar Crook stepping into open company

ELMONT, N.Y. – Get Jets and Fourstar Crook, winners of the two stakes for New York-breds Sunday at Belmont Park, will target open-company stakes for their next engagements, according to their trainers.

Get Jets, who beat Call Provision by a nose in the $125,000 Ashley T. Cole, will skip the Mohawk Stakes for statebreds here Oct. 21 and instead aim for the Grade 3, $200,000 Red Smith Handicap on Nov. 11 at Aqueduct. The Red Smith is run at 1 3/8 miles.

“I want to see what he’ll do at that type of distance,” trainer and part-owner Tony Dutrow said. “If he can get it, it opens up a lot of doors for next year.”

Fourstar Crook, who returned to the winner’s circle with a 3 1/2-length victory in the John Hettinger, will likely be pointed to the Grade 1 E.P. Taylor on Oct. 15 at Woodbine.

Fourstar Crook had won eight consecutive races before finishing second in the Yaddo Stakes last month at Saratoga.

“She’s been very consistent this year,” trainer Chad Brown said after the Hettinger. “We thought about trying her against open company a couple of starts back, and now it’s time to try something big. We’ll think about wheeling her back in the E.P. Taylor in three weeks and then calling it a year for her until next year.”

Meanwhile, Brown said Off Limits, impressive winner of Saturday’s Grade 3 Noble Damsel at Belmont, will likely make her next start in the Grade 3, $200,000 Athenia here Oct. 28. Should that go well, Off Limits could take a crack at the Grade 1 Matriarch at Del Mar in late November, Brown said.