Santa Anita
Goldencents preps for Met Mile
Barbara D. Livingston Goldencents is being pointed to the June 7 Met Mile at Belmont Park.
Goldencents, winner of the 2013 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile last November, worked six furlongs in 1:11.60 at Santa Anita on Wednesday.
Trained by Doug O’Neill, Goldencents will run in the $1.25 million Metropolitan Handicap at Belmont Park on June 7, part of the Belmont Stakes undercard.
Goldencents started Wednesday’s workout 5 1/2 furlongs from the finish and ran a sixteenth of a mile past the wire. Santa Anita clockers timed Goldencents in 23.20 seconds for the final quarter-mile.
Goldencents races for Glenn Sorgenstein and Josh Kaplan. Goldencents has won 5 of 13 starts and just under $2 million. He has not started since finishing seventh in the Grade 1 Cigar Mile at Aqueduct last November.