Global View regroups for Secretariat Stakes

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – Global View exited his disappointing seventh-place finish July 5 in the Belmont Derby in good physical condition, has returned to trainer Tom Proctor’s string at Arlington, and is being pointed for the Secretariat Stakes on Aug. 16, according to Craig Bernick, president of owner Glen Hill Farm.

A 7-1 chance in the $1.25 million Belmont Derby, Global View raced from the back of the pack, and as he was attempting to rally wide in the homestretch, a horse came out and briefly blocked his path.

“At the eighth pole, he got knocked from a horse in front of him, and it stopped him,” Bernick said.

Global View, a rare son of Galileo to race in the United States, previously had never been worse than second in five grass races. He won the American Turf Stakes and was second in the Penn Mile, and Global View looked like a horse who would prosper at the 1 1/4-mile trip of the Belmont Derby.

“He’s going to be much better at a mile and a half, a mile and a quarter, and it was pretty disappointing that he ran like that the first time going a mile and a quarter,” said Bernick.

With Gary Stevens out of action, Global View will have a new rider in the 1 1/4-mile Secretariat.

Meanwhile, the 3-year-old filly Ceisteach notably was absent from the American Derby, a race to which she had been pointed, and Bernick said Ceisteach will be out of action for several months after sustaining a knee injury. Ceisteach, privately purchased this year by Glen Hill and Hill ‘n’ Dale Equine from Irish owner-breeder-trainer Jim Bolger, sharply won her North American debut June 7 in an Arlington allowance race. She worked June 29 and two days later was lame in a foreleg. The diagnosis was a chipped knee, and while the injury won’t require surgery, Bernick said Ceisteach will be off for at least 60 days and won’t race again until next winter.