Yuugiri points for Carousel off sharp allowance win
Yuugiri, a recent allowance winner in her first start since the Kentucky Oaks, could run next in the Carousel on Feb. 25 at Oaklawn, according to trainer Rodolphe Brisset. The filly earned a career-high Beyer of 90 for her Dec. 30 win at Oaklawn.
“I think she looks like she wants to fire when she’s fresh,” Brisset said. “I was very curious to see what she was going to do. I think I’m going to wait for that, not rush anything.”
Brisset said he will take things race to race with Yuugiri, with a long-term goal the Grade 1 Madison at Keeneland.
“We want to build a program where we can see if she can win a big one sprinting,” said Brisset.
Yuugiri won last year’s Grade 3 Fantasy at Oaklawn and Brisset might have a candidate for this year’s renewal. He said Royal Spa, fourth in the Grade 2 Demoiselle at Aqueduct, is now at Oaklawn after a freshening. “She could be a filly who fits the Fantasy,” said Brisset.
BC Sprint alums at Delta
Super Ocho, who set the pace and finished sixth in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint at Keeneland, is entered in Saturday night’s $75,000 Sam’s Town at Delta Downs. It would be his first start since the Breeders’ Cup.
The five-furlong race also drew Empire of Gold, who ran in the BC Sprint in 2020.
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