Santa Anita notes: Shared Belief ready to return to training

ARCADIA, Calif. – Shared Belief, the champion 2-year-old male of 2013, had a patch placed on a quarter crack on his right front foot earlier this week, and is scheduled to resume racetrack training this weekend, trainer Jerry Hollendorfer said on Friday.

Hollendorfer had hoped to send Shared Belief to the Santa Anita main track on Friday, but postponed the exercise until the weekend after rain late Thursday left moisture in the track. There were only nine workouts on the main track at Santa Anita on Friday.

Shared Belief has not been in serious training since he grabbed a quarter during training in early January. By Candy Ride, Shared Belief was unbeaten in three starts at 2, including the Grade 1 CashCall Futurity at Hollywood Park on Dec. 14.

“It’s coming along, a day-to-day thing,” Hollendorfer said of the foot. “We put a patch where the split was. We’re ready to train.”

Hollendorfer said he does not have a timetable for Shared Belief to resume racing. After the CashCall Futurity, Hollendorfer had considered running Shared Belief in the $200,000 Robert Lewis Stakes, to be run here Saturday, but the chances of a start in that race dissolved when Shared Belief missed training time.

The next two-turn stakes for the 3-year-old division in Southern California is the $300,000 San Felipe Stakes over 1 1/16 miles on March 8, a prep for the $1 million Santa Anita Derby on April 5.

“He’s not a big, heavy horse, so I don’t think it will take long,” Hollendorfer said of getting Shared Belief ready to race. “We’ll let him tell us how he’s doing.”

Shared Belief has earned $451,200.