With exercises from Essential Quality , Knicks Go , and Shedaresthedevil postponed a day due to sloppy conditions at Churchill Downs Oct. 30, Rattle N Roll headlined Saturday exercises from Breeders’ Cup horses beneath the Twin Spires.
Breezing underneath train rider Danny Ramsey at about 5:40 a.m. ET, shortly after Churchill Downs opened for coaching, the grade 1-winning 2-year-old comfortably traveled 5 furlongs in 1:02 2/5. Clockers caught him with splits of :13, :25 2/5, :37 1/5 and timed him galloping out six furlongs in 1:16.
“I simply sat on him, let him run, run off on his personal, and he did all of it by himself,” Ramsey stated.
Rattle N Roll labored 5:30 this morning @ChurchillDowns went nicely. Initially scheduled for 7:30. Canceled Tiz The Bomb work at Keeneland on account of rain. He’s going Sunday @Keeneland hope this climate clears out fast. pic.twitter.com/MEWfTS80qk
— Kenny McPeek (@KennyMcPeek) October 30, 2021
The Fortunate Seven Steady-owned and Kenny McPeek skilled runner has gained two straight races underneath jockey Brian Hernandez Jr. since stretched out to race 1 1/16 miles. He gained a maiden race at Churchill Downs Sept. 23 adopted by the Claiborne Breeders’ Futurity (G1) at Keeneland Oct. 9.
1 1/16 miles can also be the gap of the TVG Breeder’s Cup Juvenile Introduced by Thoroughbred Aftercare (G1), the place he’ll make his subsequent begin Nov. 5 at Del Mar.
Ramsey feels good concerning the Breeders’ Cup possibilities of Rattle N Roll and Phoenix Thoroughbreds’ Tiz the Bomb , McPeek’s other Breeders’ Cup starter this year. Tiz the Bomb goes in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Presented by Coolmore America (G1T), also Friday.
Both 2-year-olds are contenders as McPeek looks to pick up an elusive Breeders’ Cup victory. Though 16 of the trainer’s 36 Breeders’ Cup starters have hit the board, none have won.
“Second, third, second, third, second, third,” Ramsey said, describing the near misses. “I think this is the year for us.”
He sees development from Rattle N Roll, a Connect colt who lost his first two starts. In one of those defeats, coming this summer at Saratoga Race Course, jockey Jose Ortiz pulled him up after the colt raced erratically with a watch harm that has since healed.
Ramsey stated by way of the colt placing issues collectively on a scale to 10, Rattle N Roll is a “9” coming into the Breeders’ Cup,
“However I am afraid when he will get quantity 10, oh my God, he could be harmful,” Ramsey stated. “He could be very, very harmful.”
Tiz the Bomb, winner of the Fort & Key Bourbon Stakes (G2T), had a scheduled exercise pushed again till Sunday on account of moist observe circumstances at Keeneland, McPeek tweeted.
Although coach Brad Cox equally delayed exercises from Important High quality, Knicks Go, and Shedaresthedevil at Churchill Downs, he did decide to work Turnerloose and Ready to Purrform five furlongs late Saturday morning. They breezed in company in the slop in 1:02 1/5.
Ready to Purrform (inside) and Turnerloose work in the slop at Churchill Downs
Cox felt they did not need as demanding of a workout, as turf horses, and with their intended starts coming on Friday, he chose not to postpone their drills.
Ike and Dawn Thrash’s Turnerloose is a Breeder’s Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1) prospect, while Donegal Racing’s Ready to Pufform could go in the Breeder’s Cup Juvenile Turf. As of Saturday morning, he needed a defection to gain entrance into the field from the list of alternates.
Turnerloose outside Ready to Purrform 5F from the half 102.20. #BC21 pic.twitter.com/J7Ci4bWYhA
— Kevin Kerstein (@HorseRacingKK) October 30, 2021
Cox stated the preparation of his older horses is essentially unchanged by delaying exercises a day. Important High quality and Knicks Go run within the Longines Breeders’ Cup Traditional (G1), Shedaresthedevil within the Longines Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1). Each races are on the second of the 2 Breeders’ Cup days, Nov. 6
“We’ll nonetheless look to get a great transfer out of them,” Cox stated. “However we’ll see how the observe is tomorrow. I feel will probably be just a little higher and go from there.”
