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Triple stakes winner and one of the top Kentucky Derby entries Chocolate Candy took one loop around the paddock and then jogged a mile on Thursday morning at Churchill Downs with exercise rider Lindsey Molina up.
Owned by the Sid and Jenny Craig Trust, Chocolate Candy enters the 2009 Kentucky Derby 135 off a runner-up finish to Pioneerof the Nile in the Santa Anita Derby. Prior to that, the Jerry Hollendorfer trainee had won the El Camino Real Derby (G3) and the California Derby.
Race horse trainer Jerry Hollendorfer is scheduled to return to Louisville on Saturday with the colt’s final pre-Kentucky Derby work slated for Monday or Tuesday. Mike Smith has the riding assignment.
Toyota Blue Grass Stakes (gr. I) winner General Quarters turned in his final work for Kentucky Derby 135 by covering 5 furlongs in 1:01.80 under exercise rider Julie Sheets.
Working at 7 o’clock, General Quarters recorded fractions of :12.60, :24.20, :36.60, :48.80 and galloped out 6 furlongs in 1:16.20 according to Churchill Downs clockers. The move was the 13th fastest of 30 at the distance.
“I was looking for between 1:01 and 1:02, so this was perfect,” owner-trainer Tom McCarthy said. “I wanted a nice, steady work, and that is what I got. I did not want anything like his work before the Blue Grass (:58.20 on April 4). I am happy with the work.”
Julie Sheets, who has been General Quarters’ regular morning partner since the colt arrived here last month, said, “He went nice and easy, very comfortable.”
Tom McCarthy said General Quarters would walk on Friday.
WinStar Farm’s Hold Me Back “made 2 rounds” of the track with assistant trainer Kenny McCarthy up according to race horse trainer Bill Mott.
Winner of the Lane’s End (gr. II) and runner-up to General Quarters in the Toyota Blue Grass Stakes (gr. I) in his most recent start, Hold Me Back had arrived at Churchill Downs on Wednesday from Keeneland.
Mott said that Hold Me Back would work Sunday or Monday. Jockey Kent Desormeaux, who rode 2 Kentucky Derby winners, has the mount for Hold Me Back.
Wood Memorial (gr. I) winner I Want Revenge galloped 1 1/2 miles under Joe Deegan shortly after the Churchill Downs racetrack opened for training.
Bobby Troeger, assistant to race horse trainer Jeff Mullins, said I Want Revenge would visit the paddock on Friday as part of his morning activity.
Jockey Joe Talamo has the mount on I Want Revenge, who is owned by IEAH Stables, David Lanzman and Puglisi Racing. I Want Revenge is scheduled for his final pre-Kentucky Derby work on Tuesday.
Horse racing news edited from www.churchilldowns.com.
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