Track Phantom came out of his Saturday win in the Lecomte Stakes looking fresh, healthy, and happy Sunday morning. His next stop: The Risen Star Stakes on Feb. 17, when a new challenger will be coming out of Track Phantom’s barn at Fair Grounds.   Track Phantom won the Grade 3, $200,000 Lecomte by 2 3/4 lengths, running his two-turn record to three wins from three starts, adding the Lecomte to his Dec. 23 victory in the Gun Runner at Fair Grounds, and bumping his Kentucky Derby qualifying points total to 30, already likely enough to make the 20-horse Derby field. Track Phantom, rating comfortably on the lead under Joel Rosario, ran 1 1/16 miles in 1:44.73 and earned a career-best 90 Beyer Speed Figure.  About four hours earlier, his trainer, Steve Asmussen, had put a saddle on Hall of Fame, who had been second racing over seven furlongs in his career debut Nov. 25 at Churchill Downs and was stretching out to two turns in a maiden race. Hall of Fame, Rosario up, came through a hole on the inside to challenge pacesetting second-favorite Funnyflame going to the half-mile and around the turn. The race’s half-mile split of 46.76 was extremely taxing, and Funnyflame would fade to finish sixth. Hall of Fame was nonplussed, disposing of his pace rival at the quarter pole and running unchallenged to the finish, winning by 10 1/4 lengths. He ran 1 1/16 miles in 1:44.27 and got a 94 Beyer.   :: Bet with the Best! Get FREE All-Access PPs and Weekly Cashback when you wager on DRF Bets. “He’s just an absolutely beautiful individual that has a tremendous amount of talent. We are planning on getting in the Derby mix with him,” Asmussen said.  Asmussen said the plan is to run Hall of Fame back over 1 1/8 miles in the Risen Star.  “I think he’s that strong, and that he will move forward from [Saturday’s] race. There is that much of him there. He’s a horse we really believe in,” Asmussen said.  Hall of Fame is by Gun Runner and is the first foal produced by the unraced Giant’s Causeway mare, Flag Day. He was purchased at Keeneland’s 2022 September yearling auction for $1.4 million and campaigns for Mrs. John Magnier, Michael Tabor, Derrick Smith, and Westerberg, and Ghandarvi – in other words, Coolmore. Hall of Fame didn’t breeze between Aug. 30 and Sept. 30, but otherwise has been on a steady work pattern since May 21. He has more foundation than the typical twice-started 3-year-old.  Track Phantom, to be fair, could have run faster. He set an easy half-mile split, 48.36, that was 1.6 seconds slower than Hall of Fame’s, and Rosario didn’t ask Track Phantom for anything the last half-furlong.  “Common sense tells you he had an easier race than in the Gun Runner,” where Track Phantom set a much faster half-mile pace before winning by 1 1/4 lengths. “Joel is as easy on a winner as anyone I’ve ever seen. I loved how his day went. The horse acted very confident pre-race, broke sharply, handled nice and relaxed, won picture-perfect. The race did not seem to be as taxing, which allows for future improvement.”  Asmussen, meanwhile, on Jan. 18 got a second workout into Disarm, who last was seen finishing second in the Grade 1 Travers at Saratoga. Disarm went out of training shortly thereafter and had his first post-layoff workout Jan. 8.  “His year-end target is the Breeders’ Cup, and we will not be in any hurry to get there,” Asmussen said.  Cox loaded with 3-year-old fillies Trainer Brad Cox did not get the step forward from the 3-year-old colt Nash that he hoped to see in the Lecomte Stakes. Third as the 1-2 favorite in the Gun Runner, Nash was second, beaten nearly three lengths by Gun Runner winner Track Phantom, in the Lecomte. Three-year-old fillies? No disappointments there. West Omaha, second in the Untapable last month, comfortably won the $150,000 Silverbulletday on Saturday, earning a career-best 84 Beyer Speed Figure. Earlier on the card, Tarifa captured a first-level dirt-route allowance in a faster time than West Omaha and earned an 86 Beyer. And neither of those two appears to have much, if anything, on Ghalia Princess, a strapping daughter of American Pharoah who has the look of a route horse but won her debut Saturday in a six-furlong sprint, earning a 79 Beyer.  On Saturday morning, 3-year-old filly Alpine Princess had her first timed workout since winning the Untapable. She is a likely starter in the Rachel Alexandra on Feb. 17 at Fair Grounds. Also working Saturday were Denim and Pearls, second in the Year’s End at Oaklawn, and Impel, a Juddmonte homebred who got an 84 Beyer winning her sprint debut Jan. 1 at Fair Grounds. Cox thinks both Impel and Ghalia Princess will stretch out in distance. Impel could run in an allowance race or the Martha Washington early next month at Oaklawn. Cox would prefer an allowance race for Ghalia Princess. The rest of the horses – and this doesn’t account for New York-based Gin Gin, winner of the Busanda Stakes – will show up either in the Martha Washington, the Honeybee later in February at Oaklawn, or the Rachel Alexandra.  As for Nash, Cox will push on with the colt but plans to look for a first-level allowance race. His horse for the Risen Star on Feb. 17 at Fair Grounds is Catching Freedom, winner of the Smarty Jones on Jan. 1 at Oaklawn. Three-year-old Timberlake, winner of the Grade 1 Champagne, had his first work Saturday since finishing fourth in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, going an easy three furlongs. “He’s always been a really good work horse. It won’t take him long to get ready. He’ll go straight to a half-mile next week,” Cox said.   Timberlake is bound for the Rebel at Oaklawn.  And finally, Saudi Crown nearly equaled his career-best Beyer of 106 getting a 105 romping in the Louisiana Stakes, the high figure coming despite the fact Florent Geroux wrapped up on the 4-year-old just past the sixteenth pole.  “He looked really good this morning, full of himself,” Cox said Sunday.  The Louisiana appeared to be an ideal prep for the $20 million Saudi Cup, a one-turn race over 1,800 meters, about 1 1/8 miles, on Feb. 24.  *** Intricate, who won the Grade 2 Golden Rod on Nov. 25, had her second workout since returning from a winter break when she breezed a half-mile in 50.20 on Saturday. Intricate is aimed toward the Rachel Alexandra for her 3-year-old debut. Also working Saturday was Intricate’s Brendan Walsh-trained stablemate Snead, who went a half-mile in his first breeze since a second-place finish between Track Phantom and Nash in the Dec. 23 Gun Runner. Snead passed the Lecomte by design and is headed to the Risen Star.  *** Honor Marie had his most serious piece of work since shipping to Fair Grounds in early December when he drilled five furlongs in 59.60 on Sunday morning. The Fair Grounds track opened late Sunday because it froze overnight and Honor Marie was among just a handful of workers. Sharp winner of the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes to end his 2-year-old season, Honor Marie is expected to make his 3-year-old debut in the Risen Star.  :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.