I'm Very Busy makes long-awaited return in classy allowance
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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – I’m Very Busy, a graded stakes winner in early 2024, returns from a 13-month layoff in a stakes-caliber allowance scheduled for one mile on the turf Friday at Saratoga.
A 5-year-old son of Cloud Computing trained by Chad Brown, I’m Very Busy finished second to the mare Warm Heart in the Grade 1 Pegasus World Cup Turf at Gulfstream Park in January 2024. He came back two months later to win the Grade 2 Mevin Muniz Memorial from post 13 at Fair Grounds. Following seventh-place finishes in the Grade 1 Turf Classic at Churchill Downs and Grade 1 Manhattan at Saratoga, I’m Very Busy has not been seen in the afternoon.
Brown said I’m Very Busy came out of the Manhattan with a temperature that later morphed into full-blown pneumonia.
“It kept setting me back,” Brown said. “I had him entered a few times and he got sick on me again. He’s had a lingering issue. But now that’s behind him. He’s doing well. He’s training good, finally healthy.”
Saturday’s $120,000 allowance came up solid. Nantasket Beach, claimed for $20,000 by Lauren Robson, has won three of four starts since, including a one-mile allowance by two lengths at Churchill on May 22. Julien Leparoux, aboard for that win, is named to ride.
Big Everest has only one win over the last two years but did have a productive 2023, winning three stakes. Big Everest, trained by Miguel Clement, is coming out of a third-place finish in this condition at Aqueduct on June 19.
General Jim won the Grade 3 Swale on dirt as a 3-year-old after wining two starts on turf, including a maiden race here at age 2 in 2022.
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