Time and Motion rerouted to Modesty Handicap

ELMONT, N.Y. – Time and Motion, the Grade 1-winning turf filly who was scratched from the New York Stakes due to a low white blood cell count, returned to the work tab Monday, breezing three furlongs in 36.55 seconds over the Belmont Park turf course.

If all continues to go well, Time and Motion could start in the Grade 3, $100,000 Modesty Handicap at Arlington Park on July 8. The Modesty is the local prep for the Grade 1, $600,000 Beverly D. on Aug. 12. Both races are at 1 3/16 miles.

Trainer Jimmy Toner had planned to run Time and Motion in the New York Stakes at Belmont on June 9 and then the Diana at Saratoga on July 22. But those plans went awry when Toner was forced to scratch her from the New York.

“And I can’t go straight to the Diana against those horses off a two-month layoff,” Toner said.

Also working Monday for Toner was Bellavais, who went three furlongs in 36.66 seconds over Belmont’s training track in preparation for Saturday’s $100,000 Wild Applause Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at a mile. Bellavais is coming out of a third-place finish behind Morticia in the Soaring Softly Stakes here on May 20. In January, Bellavais, won the Ginger Brew Stakes at Gulfstream Park.

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◗ Big Handsome and Get Jets, two of trainer Tony Dutrow’s top turf horses, breezed five furlongs in 1:00.58 on Monday over Belmont’s turf course in preparation for stakes here next month. The pair went an opening quarter in 24.08 seconds and got their last three furlongs in 36.50, with Get Jets galloping out more sharply past the wire.

Big Handsome, 3 for 3 on turf, is pointing to the $100,000 Manila Stakes going a mile July 4. Get Jets, who has two wins from three starts since being switched to the grass, will start in the $150,000 Forbidden Apple Stakes on July 15.