Wanted: A fair chance for Far Right

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Trainer Ron Moquett shipped Far Right to Saratoga to train as he weighs the potential options for the graded stakes-winning 3-year-old.

Far Right, who won the Smarty Jones and Grade 3 Southwest at Oaklawn before finishing a well-beaten second to American Pharoah in the Arkansas Derby, is being considered for the Travers or King’s Bishop at Saratoga and the Smarty Jones at Parx. All three are on Aug. 29.

The late-running Far Right is coming off a sixth-place finish in the Grade 2 Indiana Derby on July 18. Tiz Shea D stalked and passed Mr. Z late in a race with little pace.

“We are in desperate search of pace,” Moquett said. “On a speed-favoring track at Indiana Downs our horse is 16 lengths out of it. He ran his eyeballs out. He’s good to pass anybody – anybody but American Pharoah – if there’s pace.”

Moquett, who has kept a small string in Saratoga this summer, believes the main track is playing fair so he would like to run here.

“Honor Code made me really want to run here,” said Moquett, referring to the ridgling who rallied from 19 lengths back to win the Grade 1 Whitney. “It’s been a while in a big race I see someone come from that far out of it. Cryptoclearance would have been a non-winners of two if he ran at Indiana Downs all the time.”