Stilleto Boy heading back East

Stilleto Boy, winner of the Grade 1 Santa Anita Handicap in March, was recently transferred from Golden Gate Fields to Santa Anita to continue preparation for a start in the Grade 1 Stephen Foster Stakes at Ellis Park in Kentucky on July 1.

The $1 million Stephen Foster Stakes at 1 1/8 miles was scheduled to be run at Churchill Downs until track officials announced earlier this month that the track’s spring-summer race meeting was being moved to Ellis Park following a series of fatalities at Churchill Downs earlier in the spring.

Stilleto Boy, trained by Ed Moger for his brother, Steve, was third by a head in the Grade 2 Oaklawn Handicap at Oaklawn Park on April 22. Following that race, Stilleto Boy was given a brief rest at Moger’s Northern California ranch before resuming training.

Stilleto Boy is scheduled to work at Santa Anita the next two Saturdays before being flown to Kentucky in late June.

The stable area at Golden Gate Fields closes this week following the conclusion of the track’s winter-spring meeting on Sunday. Ed Moger chose to move Stilleto Boy to Santa Anita as opposed to being based at Cal-Expo in Sacramento in coming weeks.

The Moger-trained Chase the Chaos, a stakes winner at Golden Gate Fields in February, and the fifth-place finish in the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico on May 20, is currently at Moger’s farm in advance of a scheduled trip to Canada later this summer.

Moger said Chase the Chaos is a candidate for the Grade 3 Canadian Derby, a $200,000 race at 1 1/4 miles at Century Downs in Calgary on Aug. 26.

Owned by Bill Dory and Adam Ference, Chase the Chaos will be sent to trainer Frank Lucarelli at Emerald Downs when he resumes training before being sent to another trainer in Canada, Moger said.

Chase the Chaos, a winner of 3 of 9 starts, won the El Camino Real Derby at 1 1/8 miles at Golden Gate Fields in February. In the Preakness Stakes, Chase the Chaos closed from last of seven to finish 12 1/4 lengths behind race winner National Treasure.

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