Law Abidin Citizen switching surfaces for Churchill Downs Stakes

ARCADIA, Calif. – Law Abidin Citizen, the winner of the Grade 3 San Simeon Stakes on the hillside turf course at Santa Anita on March 31, is switching surfaces and traveling for his next start.

Trainer Mark Glatt said on Friday that Law Abidin Citizen is being pointed for the $500,000 Churchill Downs Stakes on May 4, the same day as the Kentucky Derby.

The Churchill Downs Stakes at seven furlongs will be the Grade 1 debut and first start in a dirt stakes in more than two years for Law Abidin Citizen, a 5-year-old gelding. Law Abidin Citizen was second in the Grade 2 San Vicente Stakes at seven furlongs on dirt for 3-year-olds in February 2017.

“He’s working really good right now,” Glatt said. “He likes the hillside turf course, but I think he’s pretty versatile as far as surfaces are concerned.”