Pool Winner streaks into allowance

Pool Winner and Bold Thunder were scratched last weekend from both the Grade 3 Parx Dash and the Wolf Hill Stakes at Monmouth Park. On Sunday, they will meet in a no-conditions turf-sprint allowance at Laurel Park.

In three starts dating to last November, the 4-year-old Pool Winner has burned through his allowance conditions. Trained by Alan Goldberg, he concluded his 3-year-old season with a first-level allowance win at Laurel. This season, he has won a second-level optional-claiming race at Laurel in May and a third-level optional claimer at Parx in June.

While Pool Winner is fast, he is unlikely to make the lead Sunday against Bold Thunder, one of the quickest turf sprinters on the East Coast in the past few seasons.

Based at Monmouth with Mike and Patricia Farro, Bold Thunder has not won in more than a year but appears well spotted in this 5 1/2-furlong sprint. Off since late March, Bold Thunder has worked five times for this race and looks ready for a top performance.

◗ Trainer Tom Proctor has an interesting first-time starter in race 1 at Laurel on Sunday, a 5 1/2-furlong turf sprint for 2-year-old maidens.

Owned and bred by Glen Hill Farm, Caribou Club is by the good turf sire City Zip. He is the first foal out of the mare Broken Dreams, who at ages 5 and 6 won the Sen. Ken Maddy Stakes, a 6 1/2-furlong, downhill turf sprint at Santa Anita. As a 6-year-old in 2012, she also won the restricted Osunitas Stakes over 1 1/16 miles of turf at Del Mar.

Broken Dreams is a product of Glen Hill Farm breeding through and through. Her dam is Our Dreamer, an unraced daughter of the mare One Dreamer, who won seven stakes for Glen Hill and Proctor. She ended her career with a 47-1 upset over Heavenly Prize in the 1994 Breeders’ Cup Distaff at Churchill Downs.