Charitable Man Probable For The Belmont Stakes Field
Race horse trainer Kiaran McLaughlin said that Charitable Man came out of his victory in Saturday’s Peter Pan Stakes in fine form and that he and owner William K. Warren Jr. would decide on the colt’s next start shortly.
“He came out of the race great,” said Kiaran McLaughlin of Charitable Man, who covered the nine furlongs in 1:47.13. “The main decision is, ‘Where do we go next? What do we do?’ I will be corresponding with Mr. Warren today and tomorrow, and we are looking at the Belmont Stakes (Grade 1, $1 million, 3-year-olds, 1 1/2 miles, June 6) or the Dwyer (Grade 2, $200,000, 3-year-olds, 1 1/16 miles, July 4) with heading to the Shadwell Travers (Grade 1, $1 million, 1 1/4 miles, Aug. 29, Saratoga) as the main objective.”
“There’s the Dwyer- Jim Dandy (Grade 2, $500,000, 1 1/8th miles, Aug. 1, Saratoga)-Travers or the Belmont-Travers — we’re just looking for the right sequence of races.”
Birdstone in 2004 was the last Travers winner to have prepped with a Belmont Stakes victory, although Charitable Man’s sire, Lemon Drop Kid, won both the Belmont Stakes and the Travers in 1999, having prepped for the Mid-Summer Derby with a second-place finish in the Jim Dandy.
“The neat thing about Charitable Man is that we won the (Grade 2) Futurity here going seven furlongs,” said race horse trainer Kiaran McLaughlin. “The distance, a mile to a mile and a half, isn’t a big issue, and he’s three-for-three on dirt.”
McLaughlin added that another of his star 3-year-olds, West Point Thoroughbred’s Mr. Fantasy, would start next either in the $600,000 Shadwell Metropolitan Handicap at a mile on Memorial Day, Monday, May 25, or the $250,000 Woody Stephens for 3-year-olds going 7 furlongs on Belmont Stakes Day, Saturday, June 6.
Horse racing news edited from www.nyra.com.
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"Charitable Man Probable For The Belmont Stakes Field" was posted on 10 May 2009 10:30 PM under Belmont Stakes, Horse Racing News, Horses, Race Tracks, Stakes Races, Triple Crown
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