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Posted on Sunday, May 31st, 2009
Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird‘s co-owners Mark Allen and Dr. Leonard Blach stopped by Churchill Downs en route to New York for the $1-million Belmont Stakes 2009 on Saturday, June 6, at Belmont Park.
“We’re leaving later today for New York so we can get settled in and ready for everything,” said Allen, who never has been to Belmont Park where Mine That Bird will try to take down the Belmont Stakes at 1 1/2 miles.
Sunday marked the first time Allen had seen Mine That Bird since the gelding’s runner-up finish to Rachel Alexandra in the Preakness Stakes on May 16 at Pimlico Race Course.
“It looks like he has put on a little weight,” said Allen, whose first Belmont Stakes recollection was Secretariat’s 31-length romp in 1973 when he was 15 and grooming horses at Santa Fe. “For as hard as he has run and the shipping, I am real happy with the way he looks.”
With regular exercise rider Charlie Figueroa up, Allen led Mine That Bird to the track around 7:30 a.m. Figueroa backtracked Mine That Bird to the paddock runway and then galloped 1 1/2 miles.
“He was a little more into the bit today,” race horse trainer Chip Woolley said. “That should set him up for his breeze tomorrow. He’ll work a half-mile and gallop an eighth past the wire with Calvin (Borel) on him right after the break.”
Woolley leaves for New York early Tuesday morning and Mine That Bird flies out the next day.
Facing Mine That Bird next Saturday are Belmont Stakes contenders: Brave Victory, Charitable Man, Chocolate Candy, Dunkirk, Flying Private, Luv Gov, Miner?s Escape, Mr. Hot Stuff, Summer Bird and possibly Nowhere To Hide.
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