Mott eyes Interborough for Boule

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Trainer Bill Mott has had a solid Aqueduct fall meet with 10 winners from 48 starters, including victories from four of his last 10 runners.

Included in Mott’s recent run of success are 3-year-old fillies Boule and Greatreviews and the 2-year-old filly Lemoona. While Lemoona has already been shipped to south Florida, Boule and Greatreviews will likely make their next starts in New York.

Boule, a daughter of Exchange Rate, could be a candidate for the $100,000 Interborough Stakes on Jan. 15. Boule has two wins and two seconds from four starts on dirt. On Dec. 16, she won a first-level allowance race going a mile by five lengths and earned an 83 Beyer Speed Figure. With the Interborough being lengthened from six to seven furlongs in 2018, that race makes more sense to Mott than trying to stretch her out to 1 1/8 miles in the Ladies Stakes.

“I wouldn’t stretch her out, I don’t think,” said Mott, who called Boule’s most recent performance “a move forward.”

Greatreviews, a 3-year-old daughter of Leroidesanimeaux, won a one-mile maiden race on dirt by three-quarters of a length Dec. 7 with a 77 Beyer. Mott said he would most likely run her back in an allowance race.