Thunder Snow Aiming for Whitney

[Wandering Eyes]

Godolphin’s dual G1 Dubai World Cup hero Thunder Snow (Ire) (Helmet {Aus}) has been confirmed for the Aug. 3 $1-million GI Whitney H. at Saratoga. No stranger to Stateside racing, the Saeed bin Suroor trainee, who ran third in the GI Breeders’ Cup Classic at Churchill Downs last November prior to a second-place finish in the Mar. 9 G1 Al Maktoum Challenge Round 3, was last seen running a solid third in the GI Runhappy Metropolitan H. at Belmont Park on June 8. Regular jockey Christophe Soumillon has the call.

“He’s doing great,” bin Suroor told the Meydan notes team of his star, who cleared quarantine in New York on Wednesday morning. “He had a very nice work, his last piece of work, over the gallops at Newmarket this week and I’m happy with him. He’s in good form and improved from his last race at Belmont. He’s sound, happy and healthy and that is what you want. The nine furlongs will suit him better than the mile.”

The Breeders’ Cup Classic is once again Thunder Snow’s end-of-season goal, where he will attempt to become the first horse to capture the Dubai World Cup and Classic in the same year.

“The horse will ship back [to Newmarket] after the run and prepare for his next race,” bin Suroor continued. “It could again be at Saratoga [in the GI Woodward S. on Aug. 31] or the GI Jockey Club Gold Cup back at Belmont [on Sept. 28]. He will come back and we will decide what he does.”

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