Work All Week back in training with eye toward Count Fleet

Work All Week, the champion male sprinter of 2014, resumed training at a farm near Ocala, Fla., this week after some vacation time, according to his trainer, Roger Brueggemann. Work All Week won the Grade 1, $1.5 million Breeders’ Cup Sprint at Santa Anita in his most recent start Nov. 1.

Work All Week is scheduled to arrive at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Ark., the latter part of February. Brueggemann said shipping plans will be dictated by the weather. The horse is based at a farm owned by his breeder and owner, Midwest Thoroughbreds.

Brueggemann has a division of horses at Oaklawn. He said an early-season goal for Work All Week is the track’s Grade 3, $300,000 Count Fleet Sprint Handicap on April 9. Brueggemann said Work All Week might start his season earlier, perhaps in the $100,000 Hot Springs at Oaklawn on March 7.

Work All Week won last year’s Hot Springs as part of his streak of seven straight wins, which ran from July 2013 to June 2014. He closed out his campaign last year with wins in the Grade 3 Phoenix at Keeneland and the BC Sprint. Work All Week has won 12 of 15 starts overall, for earnings of $1,357,571. He is a 6-year-old gelding by City Zip.