Glengarry has plenty of local works for rebound effort

Glengarry has been a regular on the Oaklawn Park work tab since November 2023, but for various circumstances has never raced over the Hot Springs, Ark., track. That will change Friday as the three-time sprint stakes winner is entered in the fifth race, a six-furlong allowance/optional-claiming race for 3-year-olds.

A cast of nine has signed on, including Henro, winner of the Iowa Derby; Molly’s Town, who has won two stakes; and Booth, who defeated some of these last out in a Dec. 1 allowance at Churchill Downs.

Glengarry has logged 15 works at Oaklawn dating back to Nov. 18, 2023. The move that morning was one of a handful of local works that set him up for a start in the Springboard Mile at Remington Park, where he dueled throughout and finished second by three-quarters of a length. For a brief while, Glengarry had been debated for the two-turn series at Oaklawn.

“We ended up giving him a little time off after that Springboard Mile,” trainer Doug Anderson said. “Then, we just kind of played around with him, got him ready for the Lafayette, and everything turned out right.”

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Glengarry scored his second win at Keeneland in the Lafayette in April. Prior to the Springboard Mile, Glengarry won Keeneland’s Bowman Mill.

Now, Glengarry faces the question of how he will handle the Oaklawn surface under racing conditions Friday.

“It’s hard to say, but in the morning he seems like he’s gotten over it real well,” Anderson said. “Every time we’ve worked him, he’s worked good over it. He’s a good work horse anyway, but he sure seems like he likes it.”

Glengarry will be making his second start since the Lafayette. He exits an eighth-place finish in the Steel Valley Sprint, a race in which he dueled through quick fractions on Nov. 25 at Mahoning Valley.

“I think he just might have needed that race,” Anderson said. “He’s come back and worked two good half-miles since then, so hopefully he’s tight and ready to go.”

Jockey Francisco Arrieta, who enters the week two wins shy of 1,000 Thoroughbred victories in North America, has the mount on Glengarry from post 5.

“I think he’s going to be real forwardly placed,” Anderson said of Glengarry. “He’s probably going to be right on the lead or right there.”

Glengarry could be sitting on a significant 4-year-old season for Anderson and his partners in the horse, Aaron Kennedy and Toby Joseph.

“He’s grown a little bit and he’s filled out,” Anderson said. “We’re looking forward to hopefully having a good year with him and maybe find some big races for him and see what comes of it. We don’t have any goal set. We’ll just take it one race at a time and go from there.”

Henro enters off a closing fourth in the Steel Valley Sprint. He will start from post 2 under Rafael Bejarano.

◗ Disco Ball will be seeking his sixth straight win when he starts in the sixth race, a $30,000 starter allowance.

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