Oscar Performance headed to Florida to prepare for 3-year-old campaign

Oscar Performance, winner of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf, is back at Belmont Park but will shortly depart for South Florida where, after a break, he will begin preparing for his 3-year-old campaign.

Trainer Brian Lynch said Oscar Performance will do basically nothing for the next two months before starting back training after the first of the year.

Lynch said he is looking forward to stretching out Oscar Performance in distance with a mid-year goal being the Belmont Derby, held in early July.

Lynch said he believes Oscar Performance can go beyond a mile, the distance of the Juvenile Turf, “especially the way he rated the other day.”

“There’s no reason to say he can’t go on,” Lynch said.

Lynch noted that Oscar Nominated, a full brother to Oscar Performance, won the Dueling Grounds Derby at 1 5/16 miles. Oscar Nominated also finished fourth, beaten three-quarters of a length, in the Twilight Derby on the same card as the Juvenile Turf.

Lynch also said that Brooklyn Bobby, a son of super stallion Frankel who finished sixth in his debut at Saratoga on Aug. 6, will resume breezing later this month or in early December, whenever he gets to Palm Meadows in Florida.

Lynch said Brooklyn Bobby came out of his first race with sore shins.