When the meeting at Racecourse Saratoga ends on Labor Day, September 5, coach D. Wayne Lukas will clean up his barn and head back to his base at Churchill Downs in Louisville.
One will stay.
The star of the warehouse, Briland Farm’s Secret Vow will stay at the Spa for another three weeks before she starts her next date.
It will be September 24th when she runs in $1 Million Shares (G1) at Racing Parx.
It’s the drill that Lukas uses when he holds Fees will be charged who won the 2013 Travers Stakes (G1) award in Saratoga before he went to Bensalem, Pa., where he won the Pennsylvania Derby (G2).
“I’ll leave her right here,” Lukas said, sitting behind his desk in his office at the Oklahoma Training Track. “She’ll graze every day. She’ll roll every day in the sand in a round pen. I mean, there’s a lot to like, so I’ll leave her here.”
He said he would leave a horse to keep her company as well as an assistant. Secret Oath, a three-of-seven winner who started this year with two seconds and a third ($1,449,250 in earnings), will continue her training on the Oklahoma track, which remains open through the season. collect.
Secret Oath, who came in second Nest in $600,000 Alabama Stakes (G1) on August 20 and $500,000 American Oaks Coaching Club (G1) July 23 in Saratoga, won $1.25 million Longines Kentucky Oaks (G1) in Churchill Downs May 6.
Nest finished second at Kentucky Oaks.
Lukas thinks that winning the Cotillion puts Secret Oath, the daughter of Interrogation back to the picture for the fattest 3-year-old.
“Yes, but we’ll probably still have to confront (Nest) for the correct answer,” Lukas said. “I wish we never faced each other again. Wish she would go up against the boys in the (Longines Breeders’ Cup) Classic (G1) and let us win the (Longines) Breeders’ Cup. Distaff (G1). At this point in time, she’s better than us.”
