Lightly raced Summer Revolution probable for Cigar Mile 2017

The connections of 4-year-old Summer Revolution are currently leaning toward a bid in next Saturday's Grade 1 Cigar Mile, said trainer Rudy Rodriguez Saturday morning. There's just one missing piece of the puzzle to ensure his chance on being in the gate at post time: finding a suitable rider for Jeff Drown's Summer Bird colt in the final Grade 1 of 2017 in New York.

"I'm not too sure yet, we're still up in the air," Rodriguez said. "You can say maybe eighty to twenty, twenty percent that we don't go. Right now, we're looking for a jockey. We're looking to talk to Florent Geroux, see what it takes for him to come. If he wants to come, we'll go. If not, maybe we're thinking about putting Martin Garcia on him.

"We were hoping the non-winners of three would go, and run him in an allowance because that race is coming up very tough," he added. "With Sharp Azteca, it's going to be very tough to beat him. I want to keep him fresh and try to put him in the right direction, and not squeeze the lemon too early. Right now, our main goal is to try and run him in the Carter. So that's pretty much the role I have with him. He's training very good, he's a nice horse, and I know he can compete with these horses, but at the same time you want to have the right jockey, so we'll see."

Summer Revolution has made just one start this year, a two-length victory over $62,000 open claimers at Belmont Park on October 26. The winner of three races from seven career starts won his first two races then finished fourth in the Grade 1 King's Bishop in 2016. He followed that with a ninth-place finish in last year's Grade 2 Pennsylvania Derby and was second against open claiming company before running sixth in the $100,000 Gravesend Handicap to close out his 3-year-old campaign.