Hawksmoor shifts sights from Diana to Beverly D.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Hawksmoor, the winner of the Grade 3 Beaugay and Grade 2 New York stakes, will miss the Grade 1 Diana next weekend at Saratoga after missing a week of training due to illness, trainer Arnaud Delacour said Thursday.

“She got sick last week, her blood work was not very good, so we gave her an easy week,” said Delacour, who last breezed Hawksmoor on July 1 at the Fair Hill Training Center in Maryland. “We’ll probably aim for the Beverly D.”

The Grade 1, $600,000 Beverly D. at Arlington Park will be run at 1 3/16 miles on Aug. 12.

Meanwhile, A. P. Indian, who missed the Grade 3 Belmont Sprint Championship at Belmont Park on July 8 due to an ankle injury, returned to the work tab last weekend at Fair Hill, breezing a half-mile in 48.80 seconds over the synthetic surface.

Delacour said A. P. Indian would breeze again this weekend and is being pointed to the Grade 1 Alfred G. Vanderbilt at Saratoga on July 29. A. P. Indian won that race last year.

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