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Posted on Sunday, October 25th, 2009
The Belmont Stakes, Travers and Jockey Club Gold Cup winner Summer Bird worked 5 furlongs in 1:00.45 under jockey Kent Desormeaux Sunday after Oak Tree at Santa Anita Park‘s second race.
The chestnut son of Birdstone came on the Santa Anita main track at the head of the quarter mile chute, back-tracked to the half mile pole and then jogged and galloped through the stretch and around the Club House turn.
Jockey Kent Desormeaux set him down to breeze approaching the five furlong pole and he guided him through splits of 24.42 and 48.56. Summer Bird galloped out six furlongs in 1:13.03 as he continues to prepare for the $5-million Breeders’ Cup Classic, the highlight of the Breeders’ Cup races, at 1 1/4 miles on November 7.
“The work was great,” race horse trainer Tim Ice said after Summer Bird’s drill. “This was exactly what we wanted. He looked super getting over the track and he’s been getting over it very well ever since we got here.”
“Kent had a ton of horse under him and he just let him work on his own, within himself. I’m super-happy with how he’s trained here and how he’s handled everything,” Ice added. “We’ll walk tomorrow and he’ll go back to the track Tuesday morning.”
Race horse trainer Tim Ice said that Summer Bird would have one more breeze prior to the Breeders’ Cup. “He’ll work five eighths next Saturday,” he said.
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