Whitmore mapping route back to Breeders' Cup Sprint

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Whitmore, the most accomplished sprinter on the grounds, isn’t among the older horses entered in the Aristides, which will share the Saturday spotlight at Churchill with another $100,000 race, the Grade 3 Dogwood. Trainer Ron Moquett said he intends to race Whitmore, an earner of more than $3.1 million, at the brief Keeneland meet next month, “then probably once in New York” in preparing for the Nov. 7 Breeders’ Cup Sprint at Keeneland.

Sizable fields were expected when post positions for the six-furlong Aristides and seven-furlong Dogwood were drawn Wednesday. The Dogwood is a points qualifier (20-8-4-2) toward the Sept. 4 Kentucky Oaks.

◗ Parkland, a 4-year-old gelding named in honor of the Florida town where 17 people were killed in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in February 2018, will make his debut in the ninth race Friday. Carlos Vaccarezza, whose son Nick was a student at the school at the time, is the breeder, owner, and trainer of Parkland.

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