Wireless Future shifts focus to Spiral

Wireless Future, the Fair Grounds-based 3-year-old who has three wins at the meet, will be redirected from the Black Gold Stakes this coming weekend at Fair Grounds to the Spiral Stakes on March 22 at Turfway Park, trainer Tom Amoss said Monday.

In the Black Gold, Wireless Future would be running over a turf course he has handled and in a race he would probably have been favored, but the stakes is worth a mere $60,000 compared to the $550,000 offered in the Spiral, which is run on Polytrack.

Since Wireless Future has kept such a busy schedule last fall and this winter, making five starts in scarcely more than three months, Amoss was working him lightly between a sharp Feb. 5 off-the-turf allowance race win and the Black Gold.

“We’ll alter his training schedule now,” Amoss said.

Wireless Future, by Scat Daddy and out of a Theatrical mare, has two wins on turf and one on dirt. The Spiral will mark his synthetic-surface debut. Florent Geroux, aboard in Wireless Future’s last three starts, has committed to ride him in the Spiral, which figures to have the Wesley Ward-trained The Great War as a favorite.