Will I Got It All give the correct answers in Springfield Stakes?

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – I Got It All has two main questions to answer Saturday at Arlington in the $100,000 Springfield Stakes. Can he effectively race beyond a sprint distance? And will his best dirt form transfer to Polytrack?

I Got It All never has gone beyond six furlongs and stretches out to a one-turn mile in the Springfield, a race restricted to Illinois-bred 3-year-olds. He won his maiden by more than 15 lengths in his second start and since has a second in an open allowance and a sharp score in the Land of Lincoln Stakes, but those three performances came on Hawthorne dirt after a debut dud Sept. 5 over Arlington’s synthetic main track.

Trainer Tom Swearingen actually addressed both questions moments after the April 26 Land of Lincoln. Swearingen long has believed that I Got It All would handle longer distances, and the gelding, by Tiz Wonderful, has the body type of a horse who can stretch out. And Swearingen maintains that I Got It All ran poorly over Polytrack after becoming unnerved when the horse next to him stumbled badly at the start, and not because he dislikes Arlington’s surface.

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I Got It All himself, one of nine entered in the race, can provide answers in the Springfield, the featured race 8 (post time 4:48 p.m. Central) on an 11-race Saturday card. The Springfield should unfold at a quick pace that I Got It All must avoid to show his best. He’s drawn in post 7, outside one major pace factor, Rambling Richie, and inside another, Easy Solution.

If I Got It All will rate just off the speed for jockey Manny Cosme, like he did in the Land of Lincoln, a favorable trip is his. In the Land of Lincoln, I Got It All got away with failing to switch leads in the homestretch, and a lead change would help him see out this longer distance.

I Got It All’s debut seventh came in the same Illinois-bred maiden race that Rambling Richie won by five lengths, and Rambling Richie looked like a heavy horse in need of his 2014 debut when he faded to seventh in the Land of Lincoln. He’s a win threat if he can avoid a speed duel, though stretch-out sprinter Easy Solution could be intent on the lead.

A contested pace that sweeps up I Got It All could open the door for A Step Ahead, a full brother to Giant Oak who has raced in Illinois-bred competition only once in eight starts, and who exits an ambitious placement in the Illinois Derby.

Solar Flair, who has a win and a second in two Polytrack starts, could rally with impact if the pace gets sufficiently heated.