Atta Boy Roy Ready for BC Sprint
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R.E.V. Racing’s Atta Boy Roy, winner of the Churchill Downs Stakes (gr. II), worked a half-mile in :48 over a fast Churchill track Oct. 22 under jockey Calvin Borel in preparation for the Sentient Jet Breeders’ Cup Sprint (gr. I). The move was third fastest of 33 at the distance.
“Calvin was very happy with him,”
trainer Valorie Lund said. “He said, ‘He’s back in his house.’ He loves
the track here. Now he will come back to work next Saturday, and then I
will bring him over Monday or Tuesday of Breeders’ Cup week.”
A $4,500 purchase, the Washington-bred Atta Boy Roy’s road to the Breeders’ Cup actually began last year.
“We had planned to run him in the
Breeders’ Cup last year at Santa Anita and we took him out there and
ran him (in the Ancient Title) and he hated the Polytrack,” Lund said.
“So, we said, ‘No Breeders’ Cup for us this year’ and started planning
for next year.”
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