Gyarmati horses take a short drive, then work

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – It is a very short walk from trainer Leah Gyarmati’s barn to the Belmont Park training track. On Tuesday, however, Gyarmati had to travel eight miles from Belmont to Aqueduct to get in workouts for three of her top horses.

Gyarmati said she did not feel comfortable breezing horses over a wet training track Tuesday, so she vanned Sweet Reason, Wonder Gal, and Noble Moon to Aqueduct, where they put in workouts over an inner track labeled “fast.” Wonder Gal, third to Take Charge Brandi in last year’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies, went five furlongs in 1:03.07. Her early-season objective is the Grade 2, $300,000 Gazelle on April 4.

“She was like, ‘Where are we? What are we doing here? Why am I breezing first day on a new track?’ ” Gyarmati said. “She went off a little slow, but she finished up great and galloped out great.”

Sweet Reason went a half-mile in 50.79 seconds, while Noble Moon went five furlongs in 1:02.02 in company with Bridget’s Big Luvy, a 3-year-old trained by Jeremiah Englehart who also vanned from Belmont to breeze.

Sweet Reason, a dual Grade 1 winner in 2014, likely won’t run until the Belmont meet, with the Grade 1 Ogden Phipps on June 6 as her first major objective. Noble Moon, the winner of last year’s Grade 2 Jerome, likely will return in a one-turn allowance race, Gyarmati said.