Weekend Hideaway back on short rest for Thursday allowance

Weekend Hideaway will come back on less than two weeks’ rest when taking on a stakes-quality field of New York-bred sprinters under allowance conditions in Thursday’s eighth race.

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Weekend Hideaway, who blew out three furlongs in 36.40 seconds Monday, finished third in the Tale of the Cat Stakes here Aug. 11 after bobbling at the start and hanging a bit late in the race. The 7-year-old became a millionaire in his previous outing, upsetting Diversify in the one-mile Commentator Stakes at Belmont Park. Weekend Hideaway had been scratched from the $100,000 John Morrissey on July 27 due to a minor issue.

“We kind of got caught playing catch-up, going from being scratched in the Morrissey and going into the Tale of the Cat,” trainer Phil Serpe said. “I kind of looked at that and the way he ran – he was definitely tiring at the end of the race – as a race he can move forward off. He’s pretty readable. He looks good, and he blew out fine [Monday]. That’s about as slow as you can get him to go. So, we’ll see what happens.”

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Weekend Hideaway, who won a similarly conditioned allowance race here last summer, will face nine rivals, including Celtic Chaos and Ostrolenka, the first- and second-place finishers in the Morrissey, and the speedy Bustin It, who has won his last four starts.