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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Trainer and co-owner John Ennis says there is more improvement to come in Great White after the 3-year-old Volatile gelding joined the Kentucky Derby (G1) trail with a win in the John Battaglia Memorial Stakes at Turfway Park Feb. 21.View the full article -
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Costa Nova bounced back from three straight losses to repeat as winner of the February Stakes (G1) Feb. 22 on the Tokyo Racecourse dirt.View the full article -
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Lucky Kid upset the Hyacinth Stakes Feb. 22 at Tokyo Racecourse, taking the lead in the "Japan Road to the Kentucky Derby" with one race to go in the series.View the full article -
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Ka Ying Rising cruised to a Hong Kong-record 18th straight win in the Queen's Silver Jubilee Cup (G1) Feb. 22 at Sha Tin Racecourse.View the full article -
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Though she had risen rapidly through the ranks to become one of the sport's top trainers, Cherie DeVaux has yet to start a horse in the GI Kentucky Derby. That may soon be about to change. DeVaux unleashed one of the more impressive 3-year-old winners of the year last week at the Fair Grounds when her Reagan's Honor (Honor A.P.) destroyed a field of older horses to win an allowance at the Fair Grounds by 6 3/4-lengths. The colt earned a Beyer figure of 96. “I was obviously very impressed by his race,” DeVaux said. “He is a very different horse than our other Derby candidate, Golden Tempo. He doesn't have as much substance to him. We were mindful of that when developing him, so we didn't want to go straight into a stakes. We were forced to go against older horses because the straight 3-year-old allowance races were not filling. We went in that as a step forward. We had the Southwest Stakes as the backup plan. Ideally, this was the best spot for him.” Reagan's Honor debuted on Dec. 20 at the Fair Grounds, finishing fourth in a six-furlong maiden race. It was clear that he needed two turns, which he proved when winning next out in a 1 1/16th-mile maiden, which he captured by 1 1/4 lengths. He was that much better in the Feb. 19 allowance, winning decisively in an impressive effort. After breaking a step slow, he was hustled to the lead by Jose Ortiz. He was comfortably in front until Ortiz let him run at the top of the stretch. He spurted away from the field and was hand ridden across the wire. The final time was 1:42.02, just a hair off the track record set by Olympiad (Speightstown), who went in 1:42.01 in the 2022 GIII Mineshaft Stakes. Have we seen the best yet from Reagan's Honor? “I feel he is improving,” DeVaux said. “Obviously, we won't know more until he starts breezing and doing things of that nature. He looks great. The only thing I am mindful of is that he's not the most big, robust colt. That's the only thing that keeps us paying a little bit more attention to him and being more mindful as to where we run him. I do feel like he can at least maintain where he ran in that allowance race, and there is room for him to move forward. While Reagan's Honor has raced only at the Fair Grounds, DeVaux is not looking at the Mar. 21 GII Louisiana Derby. Instead, she is planning on taking Reagan's Honor to Keeneland for the Apr. 4 GI Blue Grass Stakes. “Right now, we have the Blue Grass penciled in for him,” she said. “We want to give him time to get over that race because he ran such a fast number. Physically, we want to get him back to where he needs to be to run another top race. It's 27 days to the Louisiana Derby and 41 days to the Blue Grass. He'll get that one shot in the Blue Grass to get into the Derby.” DeVaux said that Reagan's Honor has become a favorite around her barn. She is married to bloodstock agent David Ingordo, who, along with West Point Thoroughbreds and Gabriel Duignan, is a co-owner of the colt. Ingordo's stepfather is the late John Shirreffs. “He's a sentimental horse at the barn,” she said. “He's named after my stepdaughter, Reagan. Honor A.P. was, obviously, conditioned by John Shirreffs. Giacomo's dam (Set Them Free) is a half-sister to Rutile, who is Reagan's Honor's dam. So there are a lot of ties to Jerry and Ann Moss there. It just came together to be more sentimental than we thought.” “I'm very excited about him,” DeVaux said. “This is the first year that I have even allowed myself to dream about having a horse in the Derby. I have more than one who could qualify, and that's definitely very exciting. DeVaux also has Derby contender Golden Tempo (Curlin), who won the GII Lecomte Stakes before finishing a distant third in the GII Risen Star Stakes. “Golden Tempo is on track for the Louisiana Derby,” the trainer said. “We will work him this upcoming weekend in blinkers and see if that helps him. He is a good work horse. He just has to get a better tactical advantage and we're hoping the blinkers will help with that.” The post After Blowout Allowance Win, Reagan’s Honor is Headed to the Blue Grass appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article
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