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Posted on Saturday, July 4th, 2009
The Belmont Stakes winner Summer Bird rolled into the Monmouth Park stable area Friday morning and settled into his stall in Barn 3 as he prepares for his next start, the $1-million Haskell Invitational (G1) on Sunday, August 2.
Summer Bird and his trainer Tim Ice left Louisiana at 9 p.m. Wednesday night and arrived in Louisville at 9:30 a.m. Thursday morning. They pulled out of Kentucky at 5 p.m. Thursday evening, and arrived at Monmouth at 5:30 Friday morning.
This was the second long road trip for Summer Bird, who made a similar van trip from Louisiana to New York when he came in early to prepare for the Belmont Stakes, a race he won by nearly 3 lengths over Dunkirk.
Race horse trainer Tim Ice said that Summer Bird will get a feel for the Monmouth track on Saturday.
“He’ll be out on the track to train on Saturday and Sunday,” the trainer said, “and if everything’s okay with him, he’ll work on Monday. He’s due for a work.”
“After that, I’ll get him on a Sunday work rotation,” Ice added. “I like to work him a week before a race, and the Haskell is on a Sunday, so that will be his work day after this week.”
Summer Bird had his first work since the Belmont Stakes at Louisiana Downs last Saturday, breezing 5 furlongs in a leisurely 1:04.20
Ice, based at Louisiana Downs near Shreveport, La., brought the colt Summer Bird home for 2 weeks and then shipped him to Belmont Park 3 weeks before the final Triple Crown event. With jockey Kent Desormeaux replacing jockey Chris Rosier in the saddle, Summer Bird won convincingly in the Belmont.
Jockey Kent Desormeaux will try to make it 2 Haskell victories in a row this year, after winning the race last year aboard Big Brown.
Another one of the Haskell entries, Papa Clem, also came in early, but the colt will run in next Saturday’s $175,000 Long Branch Stakes, Monmouth’s major prep for the Haskell. The Long Branch Stakes e is also expected to draw Atomic Rain.
Horse racing news edited from www.monmouthpark.com.
Tags: Atomic Rain, Papa Clem, Summer Bird
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