Kentucky Derby: Summer Is Tomorrow has final breeze Monday morning
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The majority of the miles that Kentucky Derby candidates will log in their final serious breezes have been covered. One of the few moves remaining is that by Summer Is Tomorrow, who is expected to breeze four furlongs on Monday morning as part of his long journey to the Derby gate.
Summer Is Tomorrow, a Kentucky-bred who sold in France as a juvenile and who has made all seven of his starts in Dubai, most recently ran when second in the Group 2 UAE Derby on March 26. He left Zabeel Racing Stables on April 20 to fly to Louisville, via quarantine in Chicago. He arrived at Churchill Downs on April 23, and trainer Bhupat Seemar, who arrived in Kentucky four days after his charge, has given him plenty of time to recover from the long trip after originally considering working this weekend.
"I usually work five days out from a race and I wanted to keep on the same schedule," Seemar said. "It has been a long journey and it will be 11 days between works. He is putting weight back on and I wanted to give him an extra day."
Summer Is Tomorrow galloped on Sunday morning, over a track that was officially rated muddy during the reserved training window for Derby and Oaks horses at 7:30 a.m. Training here in recent days, before crowds of media and onlookers that will continue to swell as the Derby draws nearer, has been a new experience for the colt, who is based at a private training center. Like Japanese-bred hopeful Crown Pride, who defeated him by 2 3/4 lengths in the UAE Derby, Summer Is Tomorrow makes the long trek from the Churchill Downs international quarantine barn to the main backstretch and the track each morning.