Mind Control
Photo Credit: Adam Coglianese/NYRA
ELMONT, N.Y. – A number of notable stakes-winners tested Belmont Park’s dirt training track this week led Red Oak Stable and Madaket Stables’ Mind Control who covered a half-mile in 47.71 this morning.
Trained by Gregg Sacco, the 4-year-old Stay Thirsty colt’s ledger includes a pair of Grade 1 wins at Saratoga Race Course, beginning with the Grade 1 Hopeful as a juvenile and the Grade 1 H. Allen Jerkens in August.
Also on Saturday, the Mark Hennig-trained Cash Offer breezed a half-mile in 49.74. The New York-bred daughter of Shackleford captured the La Verdad in January at the Big A.
On Tuesday, trainer John Terranova breezed a quartet of stable stars in Killybegs Captain, Stan the Man, Funny Guy and Three Jokers.
Curragh Stables’ graded-stakes winner Killybegs Captain and Gatsas Stables, R.A. Hill Stable and Swick Stable’s multiple stakes winner Funny Guy both worked six furlongs in 1:13.23.
Long Lake Stable’s Stan the Man, who boasts a record of 22-6-6-2 with purse earnings of $406,374, breezed a half-mile in 48.09, while Funny Guy’s 3-year-old half-brother Three Jokers, by Twirling Candy, went six furlongs in 1:15.11.
Ice Princess, trained by Danny Gargan for owners Flying P Stable, R.A. Hill Stable and Corms Racing Stable, breezed a half-mile in 49.80 Wednesday on the Belmont Park training track. Kendrick Carmouche will guide Ice Princess from the inside post in Friday’s Grade 3 Fantasy at Oaklawn Park. The New York-bred sophomore filly is also cross-entered in the $80,000 Gardenia where she drew post 9.
Repole Stable’s Dream Bigger, a grey son of Mission Impazible bred in the Empire State by Sequel New York, Twin Creeks Racing and Pamela Zielinski, went five-eighths in 1:03.42 on Wednesday. The talented sophomore boasts a trio of stakes wins includes scores in the Breeders’ Futurity at Finger Lakes and the Notebook and Damon Runyon at Aqueduct Racetrack.
Mark Casse sent out a pair of Grade 1 winners to breeze Thursday on the Belmont dirt training track including last year’s Belmont Stakes hero Sir Winston and Spinaway winner Perfect Alibi who both worked five-eighths in 1:01.65.
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