Mohaymen will target Holy Bull

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Mohaymen, winner of Saturday’s Grade 2 Remsen at Aqueduct, was flown Sunday to south Florida and likely will target the Grade 2, $350,000 Holy Bull Stakes at Gulfstream Park on Jan. 30 for his 3-year-old debut, said trainer Kiaran McLaughlin.

McLaughlin said Mohaymen, who went 3 for 3 as a 2-year-old, could have two or three preps before a start May 7 in the Kentucky Derby.

McLaughlin won the Remsen after finishing second in the race the last two years with Cairo Prince and Frosted. Cairo Prince was injured before the 2014 Derby, while Frosted finished fourth in this year’s Derby.

McLaughlin said that Mohaymen, a son of Tapit who was purchased as yearling by Shadwell Stable for $2.2 million, gives him every indication he has the stamina to get 1 1/4 miles.

“He wouldn’t blow out a match after the race yesterday,” said McLaughlin. “When you buy horses, breed horses, you don’t get to see all the mechanics of them with their breathing and how they’re doing and how he moves and why it happens. Invasor was like that. Henny Hughes was like that. Very few horses are like that, but this horse yesterday, when he came into the winner’s circle, he stood there like, ‘What’s next?’ ”

Mohaymen ran 1 1/8 miles in 1:50.69 and earned a 94 Beyer Speed Figure.

Flexibility and Gift Box finished second and third in the Remsen. Chad Brown trains both horses and said Flexibility will stay in New York and point for the Grade 3 Jerome at Aqueduct on Jan. 2. Gift Box will head to south Florida with no next race yet picked.

Gift Box will be joined in south Florida by Shagaf, an impressive debut winner Nov. 22 at Aqueduct, and Economic Model, a debut winner at Saratoga who suffered an ankle chip, as potential Triple Crown horses for Brown. Economic Model is expected to return to the work tab within two weeks.

Brown won three races on Saturday’s card, topped by the Grade 3, $300,000 Demoiselle Stakes with Lewis Bay. She ran a slow final time of 1:53.41 for 1 1/8 miles and earned only a 70 Beyer.

Brown said Lewis Bay will be given every opportunity to prove herself worthy of pointing to the Kentucky Oaks.

Forever Unbridled, winner of Saturday’s Grade 3 Comely Stakes, will winter at Fair Grounds, where trainer Dallas Stewart is based. Stewart said he will not be in a rush with the filly.

“I want her to win a Grade 1 in New York,” said Stewart. “We just got to be patient with her.”