Stall giving Carribean Caper a vacation

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The unbeaten Carribean Caper has been turned out in South Carolina for the rest of the year, along with the other top horses in the Al Stall Jr. barn.

Stall said he considered the upcoming Dream Supreme or Chilukki at Churchill Downs for Carribean Caper before recently sending her out with his two best turf runners, Dalika and In Good Spirits. They all have joined the 3-year-old Masqueparade, another one of Stall’s most productive performers this year, who already was at the Camden, S.C., training center of Frank Wooten.

“Old school,” said Stall.

In years past, trainers such as Mack Miller, Woody Stephens, and Frank and David Whiteley would winter many of their good horses at South Carolina training centers in Camden and Aiken.

Carribean Caper, a 3-year-old Speightstown filly owned by the Columbine Stable of Andrea Pollock, has won all five of her starts by a combined 24 lengths, with her latest coming by six lengths in the Grade 3 Dogwood on Sept. 25 at Churchill.

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“I told Andrea, instead of running in one of these Churchill races and then maybe the La Brea afterward,” said Stall, referring to the Grade 1 La Brea on Dec. 26 at Santa Anita, “I suggested we just turn her out and regroup toward the bigger races next year like the [Derby City] Distaff, the Ballerina, and the Breeders’ Cup [Filly and Mare Sprint] at Keeneland. She was all for it. After we got everything arranged, I had a lot of inner peace.”

Stall said all four horses, all graded winners in 2021, will rejoin him sometime in January at Fair Grounds in New Orleans, his winter base.

Meanwhile, the $300,000 Dream Supreme, to be run Saturday, is coming up ultra-tough with Bell’s the One, Sconsin, Club Car, and Frank’s Rockette all having skipped the BC Filly and Mare Sprint to point to it. Entries for the six-furlong race will be drawn Wednesday.

The Grade 3, $300,000 Chilukki, also for fillies and mares, will be run Nov. 20 at a one-turn mile. The Churchill stakes schedule has undergone several tweaks this fall because of the unavailability of the turf course amid a $10 million renovation scheduled for completion by next spring.

‘Ladies’ clash in Sunday feature

The 3-year-old fillies Lady Frosted and Lady Traveler are among the top contenders in a field of nine in the Sunday feature at Churchill, a $127,000 mile that goes as the only allowance on a 10-race card.

Lady Frosted, already a three-time winner, will be making her first start for trainer Tom Amoss after being claimed for $50,000 from a 7 3/4-length romp on closing day of the September meet. She’ll break from post 4 with Tyler Gaffalione riding.

Lady Traveler (post 6, Joe Talamo) has not won in more than 13 months but has been good enough to finish second in the Grade 3 Forward Gal and third in the Grade 2 Black-Eyed Susan among a number of respectable efforts.

First post is 1 p.m. Eastern, with the feature going at 5:06 as race 9.

After Sunday, Churchill goes dark for two days before another five-day race week resumes Wednesday.