Stonestreet Stable

Stonestreet Stables and George Bolton’s favored Astrology swept past pace-setting Maybesomaybenot on the far turn and rolled to 2 3/4-length victory over Ribo Bobo to win the 29th running of the $122,300 Iroquois for 2-year-olds on Sunday afternoon at Churchill Downs.

Trained by Steve Asmussen and ridden by Garrett Gomez, Astrology stalked the pace set by Maybesomaybenot, ridden by Robby Albarado, who led the field of eight through fractions of :23.09 and :46.78 down the backstretch straightaway.

Approaching the far turn, Gomez sent Astrology after Maybesomaybenot and easily swept past on the outside and never was seriously challenged in the run through the stretch.

Astrology, a Kentucky-bred son of A.P. Indy out of the Quiet American mare Quiet Eclipse, covered the mile on a fast main track in 1:38.43. The victory, the second in four starts, was worth $73,553 and increased Astrology’s earnings to $120,553.

It was the second victory in the Iroquois for Gomez, who won the race in 2006 on Tiz Wonderful for Stonestreet. It was the second consecutive Iroquois win for Asmussen, who saddled Thiskyhasnolimit to victory last year.

Astrology returned mutuels of $4.60, $3.40 and $2.20. Ribo Bobo, ridden by Eduardo Nunez, paid $5.80 and $3.40 and finished 4 ¼ lengths in front of Maybesomaybenot, who paid $2.60 to show. It was a nose back to Halo’s Thunder, who was followed in order by Ronin Dax, War Whoop, Conservative Value and Storm in the Lake.

POST-RACE QUOTES

Garrett Gomez (jockey, Astrology, winner) “He (leader Maybesomaybenot) slowed down just before I got into him. I could see he was starting to slow so I had to go, he wants to wait.” 

Steve Asmussen (trainer, Astrology, winner): “He is a beautiful horse, tons of pedigree. This is a very important two year old win but he does childish things. It’s his first day here with a new paddock and he was a wound up, a lot more excitable than you would like. Garret (Gomez, jockey) said he carries you beautiful then when Robby’s horse (Maybesomaybenot) dropped the bridle he found himself in front.  He just needs to get to the next step. This will help. I think he’s a little too childish, but he’s got a ton of ability. He is very impressive to train, he’s got a beautiful big stride – but I think he can do better.”

Eduardo Nunez  (jockey, Ribo Bobo, runner-up): "He ran a little green in the stretch.  I thought I had them at the quarter pole, but he kind of ran in and out in the stretch.  But he ran good."

Robby Albarado (jockey, Maybesomaybenot, third)
"Mike (trainer Mike Maker) said they'd been trying to take him back in his previous races and it wasn't working for him.  So today he said to get aggressive with him leaving there.  He broke a bit tardy, but I jumped on him and got him in front.  He seemed content being on the lead like that.  Obviously Astrology is a nice horse.  He ran by me in the lane, but my horse hung in there tough.  I thought it was a good run throughout."

RACHEL ALEXANDRA MOVES TO NEW BARN – Stonestreet Stables and Harold McCormick’s new purchase Rachel Alexandra began her new life in the care of trainer Steve Asmussen on Thursday morning by galloping once around a sloppy Churchill Downs main track under exercise rider Dominic Terry.
    The dominating, 20 ¼-length winner of last Friday’s Kentucky Oaks (Grade I), Rachel Alexandra was sold by the L and M Partners of Dolphus Morrison and Michael Lauffer on Wednesday.  Rachel Alexandra was transferred from trainer Hal Wiggins’ barn to Asmussen’s at 5:15 (EDT) Thursday morning.
    Jess Jackson, who campaigned two-time Horse of the Year,2007 Preakness (GI) winner and 2008 Stephen Foster Handicap (GI) winner Curlin under his stable colors, was asked what he thought of the latest addition to his stable after her morning exercise.
    “She is a graceful athlete; she moves like a ballerina and has the size of some of the colts,” Jackson said. “I am looking forward to seeing her compete.”
    Jackson was asked when the “ballerina” might run next.
    “The ink is not even dry yet,” Jackson said. “The only decision was to bring her to Steve’s barn. No decision has been made on any race or a rider. Basically the same team is in place as we had with Curlin, and like Curlin, we will let her decide when she runs and where she runs.”
    Asmussen, who saddled Curlin to his Preakness victory, indicated that like most of his runners nine to 10 days after a race, Rachel Alexandra would have her first recorded workout on Sunday or Monday. Terry would be her regular exercise rider and she would go out in the second set, around 6:15, each morning.
    “She’s a tremendously fast filly,” Asmussen said. “Hal (Wiggins) and his team did a tremendous job with her. We just got her today and we have no timetable or any plans to announce at this time.”
    For Wiggins, Thursday was anything but business as usual.
    “They came and got her at 5:15,” Wiggins said. “I didn’t know anything about it (the sale) until Tuesday night. I hope I see her in the winner’s circle many more times.”
    Racing for Wiggins, Rachel Alexandra compiled a record of 10-7-2-0 with earnings of $958,354. In addition to the Kentucky Oaks triumph, Rachel Alexandra scored Grade II victories in the Fantasy, Fair Grounds Oaks and Golden Rod plus added runner-up finishes in the Grade III Pocahontas and Debutante at Churchill Downs.
    “It was pretty tough (this morning),” Wiggins said. “When a horse is injured, that’s tough, too. As a trainer, you never know what you will find (in the morning). We will get over it. We were blessed to have her and experience the joy of winning the Oaks here.
    “It will be a little hard walking by that stall,” Wiggins continued, knowing he will still see her on the track. “It will be a joy to see her. I’ll have a smile on my face and a good feeling. I wish the new owners nothing but the best. I know she is in good hands and they will do right by her. I will be pulling for her every time she runs.”    
 
MINE THAT BIRD CONTINUES PREAKNESS PREPARATIONS – Kentucky Derby 135 winner Mine That Bird galloped two times around the main track at Churchill Downs on Thursday morning before the renovation break with exercise rider Charlie Figueroa up.
    Trainer Bennie “Chip” Woolley Jr. expressed satisfaction with the morning activity and remains on track to bring Mine That Bird, owned by Double Eagle Ranch and Buena Suerte Equine, to Pimlico on Tuesday.
    “He is doing good and I am surprised how he has bounced back because he had to run hard,” Woolley said. “But he is pretty easy on himself and doesn’t pound the ground.”
    But the overriding issue Thursday morning was the possibility that Kentucky Oaks winner Rachel Alexandra could be supplemented to the Preakness and Woolley could possibly lose the services of jockey Calvin Borel, who swept the Oaks and Derby last weekend.
    “I hope they go to the Acorn (on June 6) with that mare,” Woolley said. “I told people that day (Derby Day) that I was glad she was not in the Derby.”    
    Woolley was bracing for the prospect of maybe losing his rider.
    “It’s a possibility; it could happen,” Woolley said. “But I don’t think I will have a hard time finding a rider if it happens.”

PREAKNESS PROBABLES GALLOP ON “SLOPPY” TRACK -- Zayat Stables’ Pioneerof the Nile galloped a mile and a half on a “sloppy” track after the renovation break with exercise rider George Alvarez up.
    Trainer Bob Baffert is scheduled to return to Louisville Saturday night and Pioneerof the Nile is tentatively slated to work Monday before shipping to Maryland on Wednesday if Baffert decides on a Preakness bid.
            Bo Hirsch’s Papa Clem galloped a mile and a half before the renovation break under exercise rider Mundo Gonzalez. The fourth-place Kentucky Derby finisher is scheduled to gallop again Friday and may leave for Pimlico later in the day or Saturday.
         Owner/trainer Tom McCarthy was happy with the mile and a half morning gallop from General Quarters before the renovation break, but he had a question for a bystander as exercise rider Julie Sheets brought the colt off the track.
    “What are they doing with that filly?” McCarthy asked referring to Rachel Alexandra. “She’s an awfully good filly.”
    Rachel Alexandra could be supplemented to the Preakness, but McCarthy is planning to head east on Tuesday.
    “I would hate not to go and have her not get in,” McCarthy said. “I went back and looked over the Oaks field and it didn’t look like she was facing the quality of competition that she will face in the Preakness.”
    McCarthy plans to gallop General Quarters the next five days, including next Tuesday before vanning to Baltimore.
    “I’d like to train here that morning if at all possible and then be able to jog Wednesday morning at Pimlico to allow him to get a feel for the track,” McCarthy said.
    Julien Leparoux, who was aboard in Kentucky Derby 135 in which General Quarters finished 10th, retains the mount for the Preakness.
        Robert Baker and William Mack’s Flying Private galloped shortly after the track opened Thursday morning at Churchill Downs with Taylor Carty up.
    Trainer D. Wayne Lukas said he likely would name a rider for Flying Private on Friday.
    Asked about the prospect of facing Rachel Alexandra in the Preakness, Lukas said: “I don’t like the idea at all. I’d like to run against the third-place finisher in the fifth at Beulah!”
       Adele Dilschneider’s Terrain galloped a mile and a half before the renovation break with exercise rider Jimmy Valdez up.
    Trainer Al Stall Jr. plans to work Terrain on Saturday or Sunday.
    “Looks like Sunday may be the work day,” Stall said as he monitored a Weather Channel forecast that called for rain the next three days in Louisville. “But we are in no rush. We have the luxury of time with five weeks (between the Toyota Blue Grass and the Preakness).”
       Trainer Dale Romans sent Heiligbrodt Racing Stable, Team Valor International and Gary Barber’s undefeated Hull out for a gallop after the renovation break.
    Asked if the presence of the speedy Rachel Alexandra might alter his Preakness plans for Hull, Romans said, “She might.”
    Hull is scheduled to work five furlongs on Saturday.

BARN TALK – Julien Leparoux rode two winners on Wednesday’s card to take a one-win lead (12-11) over Jamie Theriot in the race for leading rider. Leparoux’s career win total stands at 993 entering Thursday’s card.
    Trainer Al Stall Jr. said that B. Wayne Hughes’ My Pal Charlie has been nominated to the $600,000 Shadwell Metropolitan Handicap (Grade I) to be run May 25 at Belmont Park.
    “He came out of the race Derby Day (a runner-up finish in the Grade II Churchill Downs) in great shape,” Stall said. “A mile on the dirt may not be a bad way to go with him.”

Stonestreet Stable and Midnight Cry Stable’s reigning “Horse of the Year” Curlin completed his serious training for Saturday’s Stephen Foster Handicap (Grade I) with an easy half-mile work on Monday at Churchill Downs.

The 4-year-old son of Smart Strike completed four furlongs over a “fast” track in :49 with exercise rider Carlos Rosas in the saddle. The Steve Asmussen trainee worked around 6:30 a.m. (EDT) on a humid morning and covered the distance in fractions of :12.60, :24.60 and :37. He galloped out five furlongs in 1:02.80.

Asmussen was displeased with the 128-pound weight assignment for his star in Saturday’s 1 1/8-mile race for 3-year-olds and up, but said Curlin remains on target for an expected run in the Stephen Foster Handicap. The race has a value of $750,000-added, but a Churchill Downs purse supplement of $250,000 will drive the Stephen Foster purse to a record $1 million if at least one winner of a previous Grade I stakes race competes on Saturday.

“We like where he’s at – he’s an awesome horse,” Asmussen said. “It’s all about Curlin now, the other things are out of your control. To not run him would be an injustice to him. But giving solid horses 15 pounds is a challenge. I guess they were happy the day they got Azeri beat here."

Asmussen referred to the 2004 running of Churchill Downs’ Humana Distaff (GI) in which 2002 “Horse of the Year” Azeri, who carried 124 pounds, was upset by Mayo On the Side, who had been assigned 114 and edged the champion by a head.

Curlin carried 132 pounds in his 2008 debut in the Jaguar Trophy at Nad Al Sheba in Dubai, then he toted 126 pounds in a 7 ¾-length romp in the $6 million Dubai World Cup (GI) over the same track on March 29. Asmussen said he thought 126 pounds would have been a more equitable weight assignment for Curlin in the Stephen Foster, which would be Curlin’s third start of the year and his first in the United States.

“When you look at it, you’re giving quality horses 15 pounds and that’s quite significant,” Asmussen said. “He must overcome. They didn’t put him back in training to debate weights.”

Curlin will have regular jockey Robby Albarado in the saddle for the Foster. He has a career record of 8-1-2 in 11 races with earnings of $8,807,800. His two wins this year in Dubai are part of a four-race winning streak by Curlin that also includes last fall’s $750,000 Jockey Club Gold Cup (GI) at Belmont Park and the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic Powered by Dodge (GI) at Monmouth Park.

DENIS OF CORK, MACHO AGAIN RETURN FROM BELMONT – Mr. and Mrs. William K. Warren Jr.’s Denis of Cork and West Point Thoroughbreds’ Macho Again, the second- and fifth-place finishers, respectively, in Saturday’s Belmont Stakes (GI) were scheduled to return to Churchill Downs on Monday afternoon.

“I was very pleased with his race. He showed up,” trainer David Carroll said of Denis of Cork, who previously had run third in the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands.

“He made up some ground, but the winner (Da’ Tara) ran huge that day.”

Carroll said Denis of Cork would get a little time off before embarking on a summer campaign.

“The Travers (Aug. 23 at Saratoga) is our main goal,” Carroll said. “Before that we will look at the Jim Dandy (July 27 at Saratoga) or the Haskell (Aug. 3 at Monmouth Park).”

The Jim Dandy is one of the options under consideration for Macho Again, according to trainer Dallas Stewart.

“Either that or the West Virginia Derby, a Grade III for $750,000,” Stewart said referring to the Aug. 2 race at Mountaineer Park. “Either one would give us plenty of time.”

Macho Again won the Derby Trial on opening day of the Spring Meet and finished second in the Preakness (GI) before his Belmont run.

PYRO BREEZES EASY HALF-MILE FOR RETURN NORTHERN DANCER – Winchell Thoroughbreds, LLC’s Pyro, the winner of the Louisiana Derby (GII) and a disappointing eighth in the $2 million Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (GI), tuned up for a return to competition in Saturday’s $175,000-added Northern Dancer Stakes (GIII) with an easy half-mile breeze on Monday at Churchill Downs.

The 3-year-old son of Pulpit completed the distance in :50.80 under exercise rider Carlos Rosas. His internal fractions were :13.40, :26 and :38.80 as he worked over a “fast” track.

Trainer Steve Asmussen is hoping to get Pyro back on track in the 1 1/16-mile Northern Dancer. At one time the colt was among the favorites for the Kentucky Derby until he finished 10th as the favorite in the Toyota Blue Grass (GI) over Polytrack at Keeneland. He followed that race with his dull effort behind then unbeaten Big Brown in the Kentucky Derby.

“Backing up to a mile-and-a-sixteenth coming off a disappointing Derby, we just want to get back on track with him,” Asmussen said.

Asmussen has not been able to pinpoint any specific physical or mental concerns that could explain the colt’s back-to-back losses after he opened the season with impressive wins in the Risen Star (GIII) and Louisiana Derby at Fair Grounds.

“It just snowballed,” Asmussen said. “I think when you say mental, it got to be mental because of not having the results that he wanted. He’s just a very nice, competitive horse that expects good things to happen and when it didn’t go his way, it hurt his feelings – just like the rest of us.”

Asmussen used the same race last year as a launching point for the successful second half of the 3-year-old campaign of Winchell Thoroughbreds’ Zanjero, who had finished 12th in the Kentucky Derby before dropped a narrow decision to Centennial Farms’ Chelokee in the Northern Dancer. Zanjero went on to win the Indiana Derby (GII) and West Virginia Derby (GIII) after that outing.

“I still think there’s a Grade I in him,” Asmussen said. “We’ve got to get back on track. This isn’t going to be the race of his life, but hopefully it’s a step in that direction.”

Pyro has a career record of 3-2-1 in eight races and has earned $1,056,718.

POZNANSKY’S FIRST CD WINNER LONGSHOT PLAYER’S DELIGHT – Beating long odds has kind of been par for the course this spring at Churchill Downs for jockey Neil Poznansky. So, it should have come as no shock that when he hit the winner’s circle for the first time in 2008 with Ullaroesch on Saturday for owner-trainer Ingrid Boak, he brought a $108.60 payoff with him.

“Let’s face it, it was a tough time to get started here,” Poznansky’s agent Norm Schmitt said. “You come in Derby Week with a rider nobody knows with a name nobody can pronounce.”

To Kentuckians who may not know the name, Poznansky has done his best work in Canada, highlighted by winning the 1996 Eclipse Award as the top apprentice rider in North America.

In 2007, he decided to come to the States, but getting here took longer than expected.

“I had to keep waiting on my visa,” Poznansky said. “In August, a friend of mine, Justin Nixon who was training in Maryland, said I should come down and gallop horses for him after I got the visa. So I did, and the first horse he put me won at Timonium.”

That was Poznansky’s lone win from two mounts last year. After Maryland he went to New York to gallop horses for Hall of Famer Bill Mott and spent the winter with Mott at Payson Park in South Florida.

“I was looking to get started back and I was getting on some of Bill’s Derby horses and he suggested I come here,” Poznansky said. “It has been slow, but the win sure helps. We had been knocking on the door (with two seconds and three thirds from 11 previous mounts) and people are starting to take notice.”

Now, if they can just get the name right.

BARN TALK – It was hotter than hot Sunday at Churchill Downs, and keeping with that theme, no humans were hotter than the leading jockeys and trainers at the 52-day Spring Meet.

The top three riders – Robby Albarado, Miguel Mena and Julien Leparoux – won eight of the 10 races on the card, and the leading trainers – Tom Amoss and Ken McPeek – won with their only entrants on the program.

Albarado had his second four-win day of the meet to go with his four-bagger of May 24 and increase his win total to 41 after 32 days of racing. Mena and Leparoux had two wins each Sunday to raise their totals to 38 and 37, respectively.

Two of Albarado’s wins came for McPeek on Subscriber in the fourth and Must Be Gold in the ninth. Leparoux delivered the Amoss victory aboard Maria Victoria in the opener.

McPeek, who never has won a Spring training title here, and Amoss, who shared the 2002 Spring title with Dale Romans, have saddled 21 winners each. Steve Asmussen is third in the trainer’s standings with 16 victories.

CORRECTION – An item in the June 8 Barn Notes incorrectly stated Golden Yank was a dead-heat winner of the 2007 Delta Jackson (GIII). Golden Yank finished third.

WORK TAB (Track: FAST) – Bruce Lunsford’s Tessa Blue, winner of the 2007 Indiana Oaks (GIII) and Inside Information Breeders’ Cup, worked a half-mile in :49 over a fast track for trainer Frank Brothers. The move was the 13th fastest of 35 at the distance. … Kim and John Glenney’s Transduction Gold worked five furlongs in 1:02.40, the eighth fastest of 22 at the distance. Transduction Gold, winner of the 2007 Sycamore (GIII) at Keeneland, left later in the morning for Southern California where he is scheduled to run in Saturday’s 1 ¾-mile Round Table Handicap on the turf.

 

2008 SPRING MEET LEADERS

Through Sunday, June 8

 

Jockeys Starts 1-2-3

Robby Albarado 156 41-19-22

Miguel Mena 211 38-27-27

Julien Leparoux 201 37-36-37

Calvin Borel 206 30-32-32

Shaun Bridgmohan 139 26-27-18

Brian Hernandez Jr. 111 10-19-13

Jamie Theriot 149 25-22-10

Jesus Castanon 169 21-14-18

Elvis Trujillo 61 10-9-17

Corey Lanerie 127 9-18-14

Larry Sterling Jr. 68 9-8-9

Trainers

Ken McPeek 48 21-7-4

Tom Amoss 49 21-6-8

Steve Asmussen 76 16-14-12

Mike Maker 37 11-6-4

Dale Romans 87 10-18-16

Ian Wilkes 33 10-6-5

Eddie Kenneally 39 8-8-7

Cody Autrey 42 7-8-7

Steve Margolis 33 7-6-6

Wesley Ward 25 7-5-5

Nick Zito 19 7-5-1

Four (4) trainers tied with six (6) wins

Owners

Ken and Sarah Ramsey 37 12-5-6

Maggi Moss 19 10-2-3

Zayat Stables, LLC 33 7-6-7

Richard, Elaine & Bert Klein 28 6-7-3

Heiligbrodt Racing Stable 11 5-1-0

Padua Stables 7 4-1-0

Eliah and Lisa Kahn 4 4-0-0

Seven (7) owners tied with three (3) wins

Stonestreet Stable and Midnight Cry Stable’s Curlin dazzled onlookers with a strong work at Churchill Downs on Monday as the reigning “Horse of the Year” tuned up for planned run in the $750,000-added Stephen Foster Handicap (Grade I) on June 14.  Meanwhile, Mr. and Mrs. William Warren’s Denis of Cork completed his serious preparation for Saturday’s Belmont Stakes (GI) with an easy half-mile breeze under the Twin Spires.

 

Curlin worked a strong seven furlongs in the company of a stablemate for trainer Steve Asmussen and covered the distance over a “fast” track in 1:24.60.  Denis of Cork, who finished third to unbeaten Triple Crown contender Big Brown in the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (GI), later breezed four furlongs under jockey Robby Albarado in :48.60.

Curlin had regular exercise and workout rider Carlos Rosas in the saddle and worked alongside Stonecrest Stable’s 4-year-old Sonoma Cat around 6:30 a.m. (all times EDT).  He covered the seven-furlong distance in fractions of :12.80, :25, :37, :48.80 and 1:12.40.  He galloped out a mile in 1:37.60 and continued his strong gallop-out through a mile and an eighth in 1:51.60.  Sonoma Cat, with Shaun Bridgmohan up, could not keep up with the champion and completed his seven-furlong move in 1:26.20.

“I was very pleased with his effort,” said Asmussen.  “We did plenty with him this morning.  We want him to be sharp going a mile and an eighth.”

The 4-year-old son of Smart Strike has not competed since he opened his 2008 campaign with a pair of victories in Dubai, with the $6 million Dubai World Cup (GI) on March 29 being his most recent outing.  Asmussen has been training Curlin with an eye toward a return to competition in the Stephen Foster Handicap.  Monday’s work impressed backside observers and indicated that the chestnut colt is right on schedule for his Stephen Foster bid.

“That’s what we’re preparing him for,” said Asmussen.  “I don’t want to take anything for granted.  Nothing’s in the bank.  We want everything to go well, and we’ll worry about everything every day from here to there.”

Curlin’s victory in the Dubai World Cup lifted his career record to 8-1-2 in 11 races and boosted his earnings to $8,807,800, a figure that already ranks as the third highest in North American racing history.

Meanwhile, trainer David Carroll was beaming after Denis of Cork worked a solid half-mile to wrap up his serious preparation for Saturday’s rematch with Big Brown in the Belmont Stakes.  Carroll’s colt worked just after the break for track maintenance.

           

Denis of Cork covered the first quarter-mile in :24.80 on the way to his half-mile clocking of :48.60.  The son of Harlan’s Holiday galloped out five furlongs in 1:01.60.

“I was very, very happy with what I saw today,” said Carroll.  “Robby was very careful not to go too fast early.  He’s very deceiving.  He can go fast because he covers a lot of ground, so he was under wraps the last eighth.  He just let his head out and he just immediately accelerated, and it was a beautiful thing to watch.  We’re excited.”

“It was a good work,” said Albarado.  “He went really well.  He’s showing improvement and he’s doing everything that David’s asked him to do.”

 

The other Belmont Stakes contender stabled at Churchill Downs was on the track on Monday for a jog.  West Point Thoroughbreds’ Macho Again, the runner-up to Big Brown in the Preakness (GI) and winner of the Derby Trial at Churchill Downs, jogged about two miles under exercise rider Kenny Bourque.  The Dallas Stewart-trained son of Macho Uno had worked on Friday. After a day of walking in the shedrow, he returned to the track for a jog on Sunday and Stewart said Macho Again would gallop on Tuesday morning before he heads to New York for the Belmont.

“We’re just trying to be a little careful,” said Stewart.  “He’s doing great.  He’s on his toes and looks awesome, so we’re just hoping to go up there with a lot in the tank.”

Both Denis of Cork and Macho Again had been scheduled to travel to New York for their final Belmont Stakes preparations on Tuesday, but the flight schedule was changed on Monday morning.  The Churchill Downs-based Belmont Stakes contenders are now set to travel to Belmont Park on Wednesday.

Other horses on the Monday work tab at Churchill Downs included Winchell Thoroughbreds’ Louisiana Derby (GII) winner Pyro, who breezed six furlongs under jockey Shaun Bridgmohan in 1:14.40.  Pyro, who finished eighth in the Kentucky Derby, is set to run in the $175,000-added Northern Dancer (GIII) on the June 14 “Stephen Foster Super Saturday” program.  Kodiak Kowboy worked four furlongs in :51.40.  Junior College breezed four furlongs in :46.80, the fastest move of 46 at the distance.  Off Duty worked a half-mile in :47.60.