APB: By My Standards Back on the Worktab

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Sidelined since crossing the wire a troubled 12th over the sloppy going in the GI Kentucky Derby, Allied Racing Stable’s By My Standards (Goldencents) is beginning to gear up for his 4-year-old campaign.

The handsome blaze-faced bay, an impressive winner of the GII Twinspires.com Louisiana Derby, has worked three times since late November at trainer Bret Calhoun’s Fair Grounds base, most recently covering four furlongs in :50.60 (52/82) Dec. 12.

“It was a bad track for the Derby and we got sawed off coming out of the gate,” owner Chester Thomas said. “He ended up with a quarter crack and a foot abscess, this and that, so we opted just to be cautious. He’s a very nice horse and we gave him some time off. We got his feet healed up, he put on a bunch of weight and he’s back on the worktab now. He’s doing good. The horse is just really happy to be back and is enjoying his job. With these horses you’ve got to always keep your fingers crossed, but right now, you couldn’t ask for him to be doing any better.”

Bred in Kentucky by Don Ladd, By My Standards brought $150,000 from Josh Stevens Bloodstock on behalf of Thomas as a 2-year-old after breezing an eighth in :10 3/5 at the 2018 OBS April Sale. The son of multiple stakes winner and graded stakes-placed A Jealous Woman (Muqtarib) was a good-looking maiden winner at fourth asking in New Orleans prior to his aforementioned 22-1 upset in late March.

Although in no rush to map out early season targets for 2020, Thomas said that the plan for now was to work backwards from the GI Breeders’ Cup Classic at Keeneland.

“That’s a long ways off, but hopefully he shows that he deserves to be in a race like that,” Thomas said. “We’re just taking our time though–we’ve got a nice racehorse. There’s no pressure coming to Bret from my end. When he’s ready, we’re gonna run him and hopefully win some more races.”

Thomas also campaigns the well-named millionaire Mr. Money (Goldencents), a winner of four graded races this term and narrow runner-up in the GI Pennsylvania Derby.

“Bret’s done an awfully nice job this year picking spots for our horses. When it gets close to race time, I’m sure we’ll sit down and talk about it,” Thomas concluded.

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