Global Campaign back galloping after foot injury

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. – Global Campaign, who came out of a fifth-place finish in the Fountain of Youth at Gulfstream with a foot injury, has resumed galloping and soon will be relocated to Churchill Downs, trainer Stan Hough said Friday.

Global Campaign tore off part of his hoof in the Fountain of Youth. He has been equipped with a special shoe that has “a plate that takes the pressure off his quarter where he took it off,” Hough said.

Hough said he didn’t have a race picked out for Global Campaign, who won his first two starts impressively.

“It’s a process,” Hough said. “If he handles this, it’ll heal as he trains. Right now, it’s okay.”

Hennig’s stakes winners breeze

On the morning before he runs Bourbon War in the Florida Derby, trainer Mark Hennig sent out a couple of his stakes winners from 2018 for workouts at Gulfstream Park.

My Miss Lilly, who won the Grade 2 Gazelle at Aqueduct last April, worked five furlongs in 1:00.68 on Friday. Hennig is pointing her to the $200,000 Top Flight Invitational at Aqueduct on April 13. My Miss Lilly finished third in a second-level allowance at Gulfstream on Feb. 15.

Strike Power, winner of the Grade 3 Swale and the runner-up in the Grade 2 Fountain of Youth here a year ago, worked in 1:00.17, his second straight five-furlong move. Hennig said he has not decided where Strike Power will make his seasonal debut.

“He’s not quite ready yet,” Hennig said. “His last couple of breezes have been very good. He carries a lot of weight. He’s a big, heavy horse, and he’s worked that weight off him.”

Strike Power, who finished eighth of nine in last year’s Florida Derby, has not run since finishing last in the Better Talk Now Stakes on turf last Aug. 27 at Saratoga.