Woody Stephens next target for King Kranz

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – The connections of King Kranz certainly will have no problem if Unified stretches out in distance for his next couple of starts.

King Kranz, beaten three lengths when second to Unified in the Grade 3 Bay Shore last Saturday, will be pointed to the Grade 2, $500,000 Woody Stephens on the June 11 Belmont Stakes undercard.

King Kranz, who won the Lost in the Fog and was third in the Fred “Cappy” Capossela, chased Unified all the way around the muddy Aqueduct main track and finished six lengths clear of third-place finisher Cocked and Loaded.

“He seems to have come out of it really good,” said Tonja Terranova, assistant to her husband, John Terranova, who trains King Kranz for Zayat Stables. “The goal is the Woody Stephens. He’s pretty versatile. He’s really an honest little horse.”