Shared Belief stayed on target for the Grade 1 Awesome Again Stakes on Sept. 27 at Santa Anita with a six-furlong work Tuesday at Golden Gate Fields.
Shared Belief worked in company in 1:15.20 under Ricardo Gonzalez. The orchestrated workout went just as planned, according to trainer Jerry Hollendorfer.
“He broke off behind two workmates and finished 10 lengths in front of them,” Hollendorfer said. “He worked real well. He had the fastest work of the day.”
ELMONT, N.Y. – Sweet Reason was one of the top 2-year-old fillies in the nation last year. She is one of the top 3-year-old fillies now. But questions persist concerning possible distance limitations.
On Saturday at Parx Racing, Sweet Reason will be asked to go 1 1/16 miles around two turns as part of a deep field in the Grade 1 Cotillion. The $1 million race will include division leader Untapable.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Wildcat Red worked five furlongs in 1:00.23 with Edgard Zayas aboard after the renovation break here Tuesday in his final local prep for the Grade 3 Oklahoma Derby on Sept. 28 at Remington Park.
Wildcat Red posted splits of 23.70 and 35.69 seconds and completed his final quarter in 24.54 while being nudged slightly by Zayas near the wire. He galloped out six furlongs in 1:15.15.
Wildcat Red finished fifth in the Grade 1 King’s Bishop at Saratoga in his last start. He won the Quality Road here in June and the Grade 2 Fountain of Youth in February.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – A familiar face around these parts, multiple stakes winner Sr. Quisqueyano will have a new trainer, Jose Jimenez, when he drops back into allowance company in Thursday’s $40,000 feature at Gulfstream Park.
Sr. Quisqueyano has not won since last October, when he captured the Quality Road overnight stakes here for trainer Luis Olivares. Sr. Quisqueyano was turned over to Jimenez by his owner, DDRD Racing Inc., earlier this month.
Trainer Marty Wolfson has had a change of heart and will now send his Gulfstream-based undefeated 3-year-old sensation Atreides to Indiana Downs for the Grade 3 Indiana Derby on Oct. 4 rather than to Belmont Park for the Grade 2 Kelso Handicap on Sept. 27 as originally planned.
Wolfson said the decision to go to Indiana had more to do with track surface than anything else.
Highly talented but lightly raced, Cassatt will be taking a huge jump in class when she faces the upper crust of the 3-year-old filly division in Saturday’s Grade 1 Cotillion at Parx.
Trainer Larry Jones lost a good portion of the season with Cassatt when her shins became sore after a January maiden win at Fair Grounds. In two starts since, she has posted an effortless July allowance win at Delaware Park and then stepped up in company to score a front-running 3 3/4-length victory in the Grade 3 Monmouth Oaks on Aug. 9.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Princess of Sylmar, who came out of her fifth-place finish in the Grade 1 Personal Ensign on Aug. 22 with a case of the thumps, is unlikely to make the Grade 1 Beldame on Sept. 27, and plans for her are in flux.
Princess of Sylmar has not worked since the Personal Ensign. Trainer Todd Pletcher said Monday that the four-time Grade 1-winning filly was a little slow to bounce back from her brief illness, which is typically caused by an electrolyte imbalance. Pletcher was hoping to breeze her Sunday or Monday but decided to wait.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Tonalist, the Belmont Stakes winner, worked six furlongs in 1:14.77 by himself over the Belmont Park main track Monday as he continues to prepare for the $1 million Jockey Club Gold Cup on Sept. 27.
Though he usually works in company with Life in Shambles, Tonalist worked by himself Monday, going his first quarter-mile in 24.49 seconds, a half-mile in 49.75, and five furlongs in 1:02.02 before getting his final eighth in 12.73. He worked from the half-mile pole to a quarter-mile past the wire.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Constitution, the undefeated Grade 1 Florida Derby winner, is working steadily toward a return to the races, which could occur within the next three weeks, according to trainer Todd Pletcher.
On Monday, Constitution worked five furlongs in 1:02.80 over the Belmont Park training track, breezing in company with the 4-year-old Unitarian, who has not run since winning the Grade 2 Elkhorn Stakes at Keeneland in April. The work was the seventh since Constitution resumed training in August and his second at five furlongs.
