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Slow Down Andy's big brother Team Merchants also won on Sunland Derby card

Mary Rampellini|Apr 01, 2022

Team Merchants wins the 2022 Bill Thomas Memorial Stakes at Sunland Park

Coady Photography Team Merchants wins the Bill Thomas Memorial last Sunday at Sunland Park. Later in the day his younger brother Slow Down Andy won the Sunland Derby.

Plans are to be determined for Team Merchants, who was a six-length winner of the $100,000 Bill Thomas Memorial on the Sunland Park Derby undercard last Sunday. He set a quick pace before winning the 6 1/2-furlong race in hand in 1:14.12. Team Marchants earned a Beyer Speed Figure of 92.

“He’s a cool horse,” trainer Doug O’Neill said Tuesday. “I’m not really sure where he may end up, maybe on the undercard Derby week at Churchill Downs.”

O’Neill is headed to the Kentucky Derby with Slow Down Andy, who won the Sunland Park Derby. The horse is a younger full brother of Team Merchants.

“Big brother, little brother, both homebreds, it was quite a day,” said O’Neill, who trains the horses for Reddam Racing.

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