FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 2016 NYQUIST GOES BACK TO STEWART CONSIDERING BELMONT FOR RECENT MAIDEN BREAKERS TRACK FOR FIRST TIME Conditioner Dallas Stewart, known for his recent on-the-board finishes in Classics with unsung longshots, is considering entering a pair of recent maiden breakers in the June 11 GI Belmont S. Seeking the Soul (Perfect Soul {Ire}) was a third- out victor from close up at Churchill Downs in his first route try May 29, while fellow Chuck Fipke homebred Forever d=Oro (Medaglia d=Oro), a son of GI Kentucky Oaks heroine Lemons Forever (Lemon Drop Kid) and half to Grade I-winning full sisters Unbridled Forever (Unbridled=s Song) and Forever Unbridled, rallied from out of the clouds to get up by a nose at Big Sandy the same afternoon. AI don=t know where we=re at right now,@ the veteran horseman said. AIt=s just something that we=re giving some thought. It=s the Belmont so it=s going to be a tough race, but these are two really nice colts that we=ve thought highly of all spring and have had to take our time with, so we=re just kicking around the idea.@ Cont. p3 IN TDN EUROPE TODAY Nyquist | Coady Photography PEGGY JEAN STARS AT MAGIC MILLIONS GI Kentucky Derby hero Nyquist (Uncle Mo) returned to the Group 1 winner Peggy Jean topped the second session of track Thursday morning for the first time since developing a the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale when selling to fever and elevated white blood cell count shortly after finishing Widden Stud for A$1 million. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. third in the May 21 GI Preakness S. Last year=s champion juvenile male has remained at Pimlico for his recovery, and jogged one lap around the Baltimore oval as he continues to improve. AHe went great this morning,@ Jack Sisterson, assistant to trainer Doug O=Neill, offered Thursday. AWe just jogged him once, backtracked him around and he was full of energy, everything we wanted to see first day back after his slight issue there, but he=s doing great. We=re very happy and optimistic moving forward with Nyquist.@ Nyquist, who was supposed to have a much-anticipated rematch with Derby runner-up and Preakness hero Exaggerator (Curlin) in the June 11 GI Belmont S. before getting sick, will train again at Pimlico Friday morning at 8:30 a.m. He will ship back to O=Neill=s California base on Sunday. There are no announced plans yet for his next start. AHe=s going to ship out and fly back to California around 9 or 10 Sunday morning,@ Sisterson noted. ADoug and [owner J. Paul Reddam] are excited to get him back at Santa Anita. We have four runners that are going to run on Belmont Day and we leave Sunday also. We=re excited.@ PRESIDENT & CO-PUBLISHER Barry Weisbord @barryweisbord [email protected] SR. 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He shipped up to Belmont in good shape and just jogged today. Right now, we’ll just train normally and work Saturday, and then we’ll take it easy Breeders’ Cup Turf: from there... [With Cherry Wine] I rolled the dice in the Preakness, July 23, King George VI & Queen Elizabeth Stakes.-GI just hoping that the speed would materialize that showed up on Sponsored by QIPCO paper--and it did. We laid back and that was the plan from the jump to make one run. But [the Belmont] doesn’t look like it has ASC, 3yo & up, 1 1/2m (T), Closes June 17 that kind of speed. In a mile and a half race, you need to stay closer... So we may be laying a little bit closer." --Trainer Dale Romans on MGISW Brody’s Cause (Giant’s Causeway) and GI For additional information, incl. the complete Win and You’re In schedule, click here or call the Breeders’ Cup Racing Office at (859) 514-9422. Preakness S. runner-up Cherry Wine (Paddy O’Prado). *Travel awards for ALL Championship starters (based outside CA). "He arrived [to Belmont] in good shape and we’ve trained him fairly lightly since the Preakness. We picked it up a little on SHEER DRAMA WORKS QUICK FOR PHIPPS Tuesday. He’ll do another two-minute clip on Saturday and come Harold Queen=s MGISW Sheer Drama (Burning Roma) fired a back with a breeze on Tuesday. The philosophy is a little different :59.32 (1/12) bullet five-furlong breeze at Gulfstream Park than between the Derby and the Preakness. In that two-week Thursday morning as she interim, I was more concerned with recovery and getting him to prepares for Belmont=s $1- settle after the race. That’s why I spent a week in Kentucky before going to Baltimore... Whereas after these couple of weeks at million GI Ogden Phipps S. Belmont, maybe [there is] a little more intense training leading up June 11 (video). "She worked to the Belmont being that it is a mile and a half on a consensus really good," said trainer different surface, a deep, sandy surface. So I wanted to put a little David Fawkes. "She went in bit more work in him." --Trainer Keith Desormeaux on GI 59 and galloped out in Preakness S. winner Exaggerator (Curlin). 12-and-three. She went really, really well. Strong "Pace becomes more and more important the further you go, finish... really happy with the and there’s always more of a chance the further you go that the work." A winner of the GI Sheer Drama | Adam Mooshian pace is going to be soft. I think in an instance like that, our horse Delaware H. and will be fairly close. If the half-mile is in 50 seconds, we probably GI Personal Ensign S. last term before finishing fourth in the GI won’t be more than a few lengths back. If it’s faster than that, Breeders= Cup Distaff, the homebred returned to beat a strong then we’ll be further back. We all know [the pace] is not going to field in Keeneland=s seven-panel GI Madison S. Apr. 9. She could be like the Derby, it’s not going to be 45 and change. I think that only manage a dull third at odds-on in Churchill=s GI La Troienne this race is probably going to be 49 or 50 for the first half-mile S. last time May 6, however. "She came out of the race fine," and we’re going to be somewhere in striking distance at that Fawkes noted. "I just don't think she likes the racetrack. She's point, I would think." --Trainer Donnie Von Hemel assessing run three times there. She's had a couple seconds and a third. the pace scenario in the Belmont as it pertains to GSW & GISP Suddenbreakingnews (Mineshaft). She just doesn't like that track." 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