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TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2013 732-747-8060 $ TDN Home Page Click Here FLAT OUT/‘LARNED’ WORK FOR WOODWARD BREEDERS’ CUP OPTION FOR JWALA MGISWs Flat Out (Flatter) and Fort Larned (E Dubai) Connections of Friday=s G1 Nunthorpe S. heroine posted their final major preparatory moves Monday Jwala (GB) (Oasis Dream {GB}) has the GI Breeders= morning in advance of a tilt at Saturday=s GI Woodward Cup Turf Sprint as a potential aim to bring down the at Saratoga. With curtain on her career, trainer regular exercise rider Robert Cowell announced Neil Poznansky yesterday. Successful at 40-1 in aboard, Flat Out York=s five-furlong sprint, Manor covered four Farm Stud and Sheila Hoare=s furlongs in :48.30 4-year-old half-sister to Airwave over the Oklahoma (GB) (Air Express {Ire}) will head training track, the to the Oct. 6 G1 Qatar Prix de best of 44 works at l=Abbaye de Longchamp on the the distance. The Arc card en route to a possible work came one day engagement at Santa Anita. Flat Out after trainer Bill AShe seems to have come out of Jwala (GB) Racing Post Horsephotos Mott=s other it in really good order,@ Cowell Woodward entrant, Ron the Greek (Full Mandate), went told PA Sport. AThe Abbaye is definite and she won=t be four furlongs in :49.30 at Oklahoma, second-best of 27 racing next year, but there=s a possibility she may take at the distance. ARon was bucking and squealing up an invite for the Breeders= Cup. It=s something she=s [Sunday], and Neil thought Flat Out gave him a good got an automatic invitation to. The owners are mulling over their options at the moment. They probably don t feel this morning,@ Mott said. Flat Out, winner of the = have a lot to lose, so there s a small chance she may July 6 GII Suburban H. at Belmont in his latest start, = take up that engagement as well, but we ll see. won the GIII Westchester S. in April. Last term, he = @ recorded his sole victory in the 10-furlong GI Jockey Club Gold Cup, a race he also won in 2011. In his most NEXT STOP FOR ‘DELTA’ TRAIN: BELDAME Royal Delta (Empire Maker), dominant winner of recent trip to the post, Ron the Greek finished fourth Sunday=s GI Personal Ensign H., will try and defend her behind winner Cross Traffic (Unbridled=s Song) in the title in the Sept. 28 GI Beldame Invitational before a tilt Aug. 3 GI Whitney Inviational H. AWe had the option [to at the Breeders= Cup at Santa Anita Nov. 1-2. Like last run Flat Out in the Whitney],@ Mott said. AHe had won year, she will be cross-entered in both the Distaff and the Suburban, and we thought if he was doing really, the Classic, according to trainer Bill Mott. Cont. p3 really well going into the Whitney, we=d run. We worked him and thought he maybe wasn=t on his game 100%. He has always had issues with his feet, and we thought we needed a little more time for one of his feet. With that being said, we pointed to the Woodward. We didn=t want to skip them both. This work today was as good as Neil has felt him. He gets on him every day, and he seemed to think he was more on his game than he has been some of his previous works.@ Also working toward the Woodward, Fort Larned went out shortly after 6:30 a.m. Monday morning and was clocked in 1:00.86 on the main track. Trainer Ian Wilkes caught the 5-year-old galloping out six furlongs in 1:12 3/5. AIt was a nice work, and I=m very pleased with it,@ said Wilkes. AThe only thing I can control is my horse, and I=m happy with him.@ Fort Larned, victorious in last season=s Whitney and GI Breeders= Cup Classic, was an impressive 6 1/4-length of the June 15 GI Stephen Foster H. Most recently, the bay tired to fifth in the most recent renewal of the Whitney. ALast year, he was running all year,@ said Wilkes. AI feel this year he needs more racing. After this, we=re definitely going to look at the Jockey Club Gold Cup [Sept. 28].@ include: Speightstown’s DANCE TO BRISTOL Ballerina S. 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Gary King, Director of Business Development [email protected] Coverage begins page 6 TDN Newmarket Bureau: Cafe Racing [email protected] Hopeful Bryan Sean Cronin Tom Frary GII Sanford S. winner Wired Bryan (Stormy Atlantic) has been confirmed for Monday’s GII Hopeful S. Coverage page 5 TDN P HEADLINE NEWS • 8/27/13 • PAGE 3 of 7 • thoroughbreddailynews.com Cont. from p1 AShe looked fine; she was good this morning,@ said Mott. ALooked like she=s got another one in her. If she runs in the Beldame, we go to the Breeders= Cup. She could be nominated [to both the Classic and Distaff] the same way she was last year, but I don=t think anything is written in stone yet. I think that would be a conversation for something closer to the race. I don=t think it=s something we=re going to plan on now. It=s an option.@ Royal Delta kicked off 2013 with a five-length score in the Feb. 17 GIII Sabin S. at Gulfstream before failing to fire and coming home a well-beaten 10th on the Tapeta in the G1 Dubai World Cup Mar. 30. Not fully back to her old self when second in the June 15 GII Fleur de Lis H. at Churchill Downs, she came back to blow the doors off with a rousing 10 3/4-length score in the July 20 GI Delaware H. AI heard [the crowd] when she crossed the wire and, obviously, I was standing out in front with [owner] Mr. [Ben] Leon,@ Mott said. AHe was beside me, and as she was approaching, everybody was applauding, and I said, >Listen to this behind you.= It made him feel good. I didn=t have to tell him, but I said, >It=s nice. People still appreciate seeing a good horse.= To see the consistency; they=re just very gallant animals, particularly one like her.@ RACETRACK ROUND-UP Pletcher Gears Up For Big Weekend GI Whitney H. winner and J “TDN Rising Star” J Cross Traffic (Unbridled=s Song) is being Avery strongly@ considered for Saturday=s GI Woodward, according to trainer Todd Pletcher. Pletcher is also considering Belmont=s GI Jockey Club Gold Cup Sept. 28 as an alternative. AThere=s a good chance he will be entered,@ Pletcher said of the Woodward. A[The decision will be based on] what I think gives us the best chance to win the Breeders= Cup Classic,@ he Cross Traffic NYRA Photo said. AThere are a lot of variables. The horse is here, he=s doing well, he won the Whitney over the racetrack. He also ran very well at Belmont. I=d say it=s more likely that we run here than we won=t.@ Pletcher is also aiming a pair of 2-year old fillies for Sunday=s GI Spinaway S. in J “TDN Rising Star” J Sweet Whiskey (Old Fashioned) and Stopchargingmaria (Tale of the Cat). The former breezed a half-mile bullet in :47.69 Monday morning. A[Sweet Whiskey] was impressive,@ said Pletcher. AI wasn=t surprised she did that. She=s a pretty forward-training filly that=s pretty fast. She wasn=t being asked to do it; she was doing it because she was happy.@ Stopchargingmaria went five panels in 1:00.84 in company with Elena Strikes (Smart Strike) on Monday.