Ivan Fallunovalot ships to Lone Star

Ivan Fallunovalot, the multiple stakes-winning Texas-bred who ran in last year’s Breeders’ Cup Sprint, has shipped into Lone Star following some turn-out time in Arkansas, according to his trainer, Tom Howard. Ivan Fallunovalot arrived Tuesday.

Ivan Fallunovalot was stopped on after being diagnosed with a quarter crack in his left front hoof this spring at Oaklawn. He was turned out at the Arkansas farm of his owner, Lewis Matthews Jr. Howard said the foot improved with the time.

“It’s growing back real good,” he said.

Ivan Fallunovalot on Friday was a few days from returning to the track, said Howard.

“It will be a day or two,” he said. “We’ll shed-row him a bit. He’ll tell us when he’s ready to go.”

Ivan Fallunovalot last raced Jan. 30, and won the $100,000 King Cotton at Oaklawn under the now-retired Calvin Borel. Last year, the horse was a troubled ninth in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint. He had won back-to-back stakes at Remington Park leading up to the Breeders’ Cup.

Howard said he looks for Ivan Fallunovalot to likely make his first start back around August, in the David M. Vance at Remington. The horse, who is by Valid Expectations, has won 12 of 21 starts and $536,910.

New entry schedule for Lone Star

Lone Star Park was to transition into a seven-day entry schedule over the weekend.

“The horsemen requested it,” said Bart Lang, director of racing for Lone Star. “It’s become predominant in this area of the country now with New Mexico, Louisiana, and the other two tracks in Texas doing it. We were actually one of the last ones in this area to do it.”

Lang said the first few dates of entries will represent a six-day schedule to avoid double entries, but for the remainder of the meet, the seven-day schedule will be in place. The first card to be drawn so far in advance was to be for next Friday, June 3. Those races will be set Saturday.