X Y Jet starts working for Sunshine Millions Sprint

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – X Y Jet, who was forced to skip the Breeders’ Cup Sprint due to a minor illness, was back on the work tab Sunday, breezing a very easy three furlongs in 38 at the Palm Meadows training center for trainer Jorge Navarro.

X Y Jet has not started since cruising to a 2 1/4-length victory in the Grade 3 Smile Sprint at Gulfstream on June 30.

“He just loped around there the other morning,” Navarro said of X Y Jet’s work. “He’d been on the farm just to swim, came back very good, and we’ll breeze him every seven days now. Nothing too hard. Very easy. He doesn’t need much to get ready.”

Navarro said he hopes to have X Y Jet ready to defend his title in the Sunshine Millions Sprint on Jan. 19.

Navarro will be in stakes action here Saturday with Tweeting, whom he plans to run in the one-mile Grade 3 Rampart. Claimed for $40,000 out of a fourth-place finish last April at Keeneland, Tweeting has registered a win and two seconds in three subsequent starts while just falling short of becoming a stakes winner last out at Laurel, on Sept. 29, when runner-up to Caireen in the restricted Shine Again.

“She’s training very well, worked a bullet on Sunday at Palm Meadows over a deep, heavy track,” Navarro said. “That’s a nice filly that beat her last time in Maryland. I think she’s going to get better the farther she goes. We were going to put her in a two other than, but I think this race, going a mile, is the perfect spot for her.”

◗ A field of nine Florida-bred filly and mare turf sprinters will contest Thursday’s $40,000 feature at five furlongs on the grass. The race is wide open, with All About Stella, second under similar conditions last time at Gulfstream Park West, among the top contenders along with her uncoupled stablemate Glittering Judy and the speedy Salt Pond.