Two Emmys to start season in Colonel E.R. Bradley

Two Emmys, who quietly put together an excellent 2021 campaign, will make his 2022 debut in the Colonel E.R. Bradley Memorial Stakes on Jan. 22 at Fair Grounds.

“He had a good five-eighths this morning and he’s ready to go,” trainer and co-owner Hugh Robertson said Thursday.

Two Emmys clocked 1:00.60 for five furlongs, his third workout since Robertson brought the 6-year-old English Channel gelding back to New Orleans.

Robertson, who owns the gelding with Randall Wolfe, plucked Two Emmys out of the 2017 Keeneland September yearling sale for $4,500. Two Emmys has made only 17 starts and is approaching $600,000 in career earnings. He banked nearly a half-million dollars in 2021 alone. The Muniz Memorial at Fair Grounds last March marked Two Emmys’s stakes debut, and after setting the pace he held gamely for second, beaten only by Colonel Liam, one of North America’s top turf horses.

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Two Emmys finished second last July in the Grade 3 Arlington Stakes, then went wire to wire beating likely Eclipse Award finalist Domestic Spending in the Grade 1, $600,000 Mister D. Stakes, formerly the Arlington Million. In the Sycamore Stakes at Keeneland in October, Two Emmys’s first try at 1 1/2 miles, he led until the final strides, where Spooky Channel, who got a perfect inside trip, rallied to nip him.

“He’s been training really well and he looks great,” Robertson said.

Two Emmys was 24-1 in the Muniz and 27-1 in the Mister D., but could be favored in his first 2022 start.

◗ A high-end Louisiana-bred turf-sprint allowance, carded as race 4, headlines the Sunday program in New Orleans. Rail-drawn Jimmy Two Times was eased in his most recent start, a Nov. 10 allowance race at Delta Downs, but his trainer, Keith Bourgeois, has won with four of his last eight Fair Grounds runners, and Jimmy Two Times brings a strong grass-sprint pedigree into his turf debut.

◗ Trafalgar, winner of a one-turn Churchill Downs maiden race and a two-turn Fair Grounds allowance on Dec. 2, remains on course to make his stakes debut Jan. 22 in the Lecomte at Fair Grounds, trainer Al Stall said. Trafalgar, by Lord Nelson, has worked back three times since his local win, including five furlongs in 1:00.20 on Jan. 2 with a strong six-furlong gallop-out, according to Stall.