Ivan Fallunovalot plots return

Ivan Fallunovalot is gearing up for a fall campaign that could include stakes at Del Mar and Remington Park, trainer Tom Howard said Friday. The multiple stakes winner’s options include the Bing Crosby as well as the David M. Vance and the Remington Park Sprint Cup. Ivan Fallunovalot is based at Lone Star Park.

“We really don’t have solid plans yet,” said Howard, who trains the horse for Lewis E. Matthews Jr. “We’ve got some different directions we can go.”

Ivan Fallunovalot won last year’s David M. Vance and was fourth in the Remington Park Sprint Cup, but Howard said he would target just the latter race were the horse to travel to Del Mar for the Bing Crosby, a Grade 1, $300,000 sprint at six furlongs July 26.

“We’re trying to catch some kind of little race to give him an out before we have to go back to [stakes] work,” Howard said.

Ivan Fallunovalot has been freshened since an Oaklawn campaign in which he won the King Cotton Stakes and finished second in both the Hot Springs Stakes and the Grade 3 Count Fleet Sprint Handicap. He also won an allowance at Oaklawn in January with a career-high Beyer Speed Figure of 108. Ivan Fallunovalot last raced April 9 and was freshened at Lone Star.

“He’s not a real good turnout horse,” Howard said. “He gets bored real easy. We kept him here and kept him entertained and let him rest up. He liked the attention, the peppermints, and the sweet potatoes, and he’s doing super good. Now it’s time for him to go back to work.”

Ivan Fallunovalot is a 5-year-old by Valid Expectations who has won 9 of 17 starts. Howard said Ivan Fallunovalot could breeze on Sunday. The horse’s most recent work was June 12, when he went five furlongs in 59.80 seconds at Lone Star.

Sires get first winners

Grade 1 winners Misremembered and J P’s Gusto recently recorded their first winners as sires, according to Daily Racing Form statistics. Misremembered was represented by his first winner from his first starter Thursday, when Mrs. Pedecaris accounted for a maiden special weight for 2-year-old fillies at Louisiana Downs.

Misremembered was bred and trained by Bob Baffert. He won the Santa Anita Handicap and earned more than $1.3 million.

J P’s Gusto, who won the Del Mar Futurity, had his first winner June 20 at Lone Star, where Cinnamon J P won a $25,000 maiden-claiming sprint for 2-year-old fillies.

Remington renames stakes

Remington will rename the Ladies on the Lawn Stakes as the Bob Barry Memorial Stakes, the track announced. The move was made to honor Oklahoma sportscaster Bob Barry Jr., who died in a June 20 traffic accident in Oklahoma City. The race will be run Aug. 28.

The renamed stakes also will pay tribute to Barry’s father, Bob Barry Sr., who died in 2011. Both men were prominent media presences in the state. Barry Jr. was the longtime Oklahoma City sports director at KFOR-TV, succeeding his father in that position in 1997.

◗ Hal Wiggins, who trained eventual Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra through her win in the Kentucky Oaks, has been elected president of the Texas Thoroughbred Association. It is a one-year term. Wiggins is retired from training and is a resident of Houston.