Tulane Tryst impresses in allowance win

Tulane Tryst showed talent from his first start last spring at Fair Grounds. He hit a flat spot through the middle of his 3-year-old season in 2021 but looked the part of a future stakes horse Thursday.

Racing for the first time since he captured a first-level allowance race Nov. 20 at Churchill Downs, Tulane Tryst rated and rallied to a 7 1/4-length score in a second-level dirt-sprint allowance race. He clocked 1:09.77 for six furlongs on a surface that didn’t seem especially quick, and, when the figure becomes available, is sure to have earned a career-best Beyer Speed Figure.

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Tulane Tryst, by Into Mischief, benefited from sitting behind a wicked three-horse speed duel, but he came to the lead pack with eye-catching quickness even before the top of the stretch. Jockey Brian Hernandez Jr. told trainer Cherie DeVaux that he “almost ran over one of those horses when he asked him.”

There are no suitable spots for Tulane Tryst at Fair Grounds, and DeVaux said she’s eyeing the $200,000 Whitmore Stakes on March 19 at Oaklawn Park.

◗ DeVaux entered two apparently live horses in a pair of second-level turf allowance races on Sunday’s eight-race card but said Love and Money didn’t come out of a work well and will be scratched from race 5, where she might’ve been favored. Postnup in race 7 starts for the first time since a solid try in the Hatoof Stakes last August at Arlington and has trained forwardly for her comeback, DeVaux said.