Komorebino Omoide shifts to grass in hopes of high-stakes sweep

Komorebino Omoide will be going for a sweep of the two richest races at Lone Star Park next Saturday, June 28, when he makes a rare start on grass in the $250,000 Texas Turf Classic.

The 1 1/8-mile race for 3-year-olds and up headlines Lone Star’s Summer Turf Festival of four stakes. The program also includes the $125,000 Wasted Tears for fillies and mares and a pair of turf sprints. Entries were to have been taken Saturday, June 21.

Komorebino Omoide won the richest Thoroughbred race in Texas last month in the Grade 3, $400,000 Steve Sexton Mile at Lone Star. The Japanese-bred by California Chrome worked a half-mile at the track Friday, going in 48.20 seconds under jockey Ramon Vazquez.

“He’s trained very well, come out of his last race very, very strong,” said Robertino Diodoro, who trains Komorebino Omoide for breeder Perry Martin. “We’re actually going to run him on the grass next weekend. He did run on the grass last year at Lone Star and ran a good third” in the Texas Turf Classic.

Diodoro will be active in other festival stakes, with Usually Wrong going in the $125,000 Grand Prairie Turf Sprint and Flame McGoon targeting the Wasted Tears.

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