Thoughtless favored in Hoist Her Flag

Trainer Mac Robertson should have a major say in the featured $50,000 Hoist Her Flag, race 7 on Sunday at Canterbury. The Hoist Her Flag is a six-furlong dash for older fillies and mares, and Robertson starts Thoughtless and Beach Flower.

Both horses do their best work as stalkers, and with plenty of pace entered in the race that seems like a good thing. Thoughtless, who has been training with Mac’s father, Hugh, at Arlington for this start, drops in class after finishing sixth in the $100,000 Saylorville Stakes at Prairie Meadows. Her baseline performance makes her the horse to beat Sunday, but Thoughtless had no punch at all last out while racing with front bandages added to her equipment. She’s 3-1 on the line and seems likely to go postward at a lower price than that.

Blinkers off for Jagermeister

Mr. Jagermeister remains on course to start in the Northern Lights Futurity later this month at Canterbury, a race in which he figures to be heavily favored.

Trained by Valorie Lund, Mr. Jagermeister romped against Minnesota-breds in his career debut, then got caught up in a hot pace and finished second by a couple lengths to The Tabulator in the $65,000 Prairie Gold Juvenile on July 28 at Prairie Meadows.

Lund said Mr. Jagermeister is scheduled to have his first work since the Prairie Meadows on Sunday. Lund has been galloping Mr. Jagermeister without blinkers, stood him in the gate this week to get approval to take blinkers off, and plans to race Mr. Jagermeister in the Northern Lights without a hood.

“He’s fairly immature and has a lot of room to improve,” Lund said. “He just needs to relax a little more.”

Mr. Jagermeister is part of the second crop of horses sired by Atta Boy Roy, whom Lund trained during his racing career and who took her to the Breeders’ Cup Sprint.