Curlin on track for Woodward; INTERNATIONAL.Byline: Dan Farley CURLIN worked seven furlongs over the main track at Saratoga on Monday, going the distance in 1min 24.84sec in preparation for the Grade 1 Woodward Stakes there on Saturday week. He galloped out the mile in 1min 37.80sec, writes Dan Farley. Shaun Bridgmohan, regular rider of the reigning Horse of the Year, was up for the work, completed in company with stablemate Noun 1. stablemate - a horse stabled with another or one of several horses owned by the same person stable companion Equus caballus, horse - solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times Hawaii Calls. Trainer Steve Asmussen said: "We felt it really important to get him over there before he ran. Whatever the weather wants to do hereon here·on adv. On this; hereupon. in, we'll be fine." Asmussen also sent out Pyro, his runner in Saturday's Grade 1 Travers Stakes at Saratoga, for an easy four-furlong spin, which was completed in 52.28sec. THE Todd Pletcher-trained Harlem Rocker has been installed 7-2 favourite by Coral for Saturday's Travers Stakes. Harlem Rocker is coming into the race off a victory in the Prince of Wales Stakes The Prince of Wales Stakes is a Grade I stakes race for Thoroughbred race horses first run in 1929. In 1959, the Prince of Wales Stakes became the marquis event at the Fort Erie Race Track when it became the second race in the Canadian Triple Crown for three-year-old colts and at Fort Erie last month. Travers Stakes Coral: 7-2 Harlem Rocker, 4 Colonel John, 6 Macho Again, 13-2 Da'Tara, Pyro, 9 Tale Of Ekati, 10 Mambo In Seattle, 12 Cool Coal Man, 14 Court Vision, You and I Forever, 16 Acai, Tres Borrachos. |
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