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Upstart resting up for Saratoga
Barbara D. Livingston Upstart is getting a break at WinStar Farm.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Upstart, the Holy Bull Stakes winner and Florida Derby runner-up who finished last in the Kentucky Derby, is getting some time off at WinStar Farm and will be pointed to a summer campaign at Saratoga, trainer Rick Violette said Tuesday.
WinStar bought a minority interest in Upstart from Ralph Evans prior to the Kentucky Derby. Violette said Upstart is about a week into an approximately three-week stay at WinStar before he rejoins the trainer at Aqueduct.
Violette said that while at Winstar, Upstart can take advantage of “a hyperbaric chamber and a grassy paddock.”
“We’ll give him a midseason break and start him back for Saratoga,” he said.
Upstart won the first two races of his career against New York-breds at Saratoga.