Who will train Weyburn is question for owners

Typically, the toughest decision an owner has to make the day after winning a race is where to run that horse next. In the case of Weyburn, the owners - Robert and Mark Krembil’s Chiefswood Stables - have to decide who will train the horse for his next start.

Weyburn won Saturday’s $100,000 Sir Shackleton in his first start for Brendan Walsh. The horse had made his first eight starts for Jimmy Jerkens, including a 46-1 upset of last year’s Grade 3 Gotham at Aqueduct. The owners sent Weyburn to Walsh for the winter because Jerkens was not sending horses to South Florida.

“I haven’t really made that decision,” said Rob Landry, racing manager for Chiefswood. “Obviously, it’s a tough one, they’re both great horsemen. I don’t like moving horses around all the time, either. They get into a rhythm, trainers train a certain way. It’s a tough decision, been mulling it over, looking at all our options. I’ll speak with the owners and we’ll make a decision from there.”

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Walsh said he will likely have horses in Florida for another 10 days before shipping all his horses up to Kentucky.

Weyburn earned a career-best 102 Beyer Speed Figure for his 2 3/4-length victory in the Sir Shackleton, in which he ran seven furlongs in 1:23.01.

Landry said he believes Weyburn will likely be kept around one turn, noting that in some of his two-turn races last summer “he didn’t finish the way you’d like him to finish,” Landry said. “It’s just nice to get him back on track. I think the horse has a lot of talent.”

Weyburn was one of three stakes wins on the card for Walsh, who also won the Grade 3, $150,000 Orchid with Family Way and the $100,000 Sanibel Island with My Philly Twirl. Family Way won the Orchid by 1 3/4 lengths and earned a 95 Beyer Speed Figure. Walsh mentioned the Grade 3, $300,000 Bewitch Stakes at Keeneland on April 23, though he said he wasn’t committing to that race.

My Philly Twirl won the Sanibel Island by a head, her third consecutive victory after a fifth-place finish in her Dec. 26 debut. My Philly Twirl, who earned an 80 Beyer Speed Figure in the Sanibel Island, could be a candidate for the Grade 2, $500,000 Edgewood on May 6 at Churchill Downs.

“I don’t think she’s getting the credit she probably deserves,” Walsh said. “She’s done nothing wrong. She’s gotten good as the winter’s gone on. She’ll get better with a little more time as well.”