Time and Motion Looking to Rebound in New York Stakes
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Time and Motion put in a solid maintenance work Saturday morning as she prepares for the Grade 2, $500,000 New York on June 9 for trainer Jimmy Toner. The 4-year-old Tapit filly went four furlongs in 48.44 seconds on the Belmont Park inner turf with Hall of Fame jockey John Velazquez aboard.
"She just had a nice little maintenance breeze and handled everything well," Toner said.
Time and Motion was entered to run in the Grade 3 Eatontown today at Monmouth Park. But after drawing post 13, Toner scratched her and instead has her targeted for the New York on the second day of the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival.
"It wasn't an easy race to begin with, and with that post down there, you're pretty much giving up all chance since you're wide all the way trying to play catchup, and I don't think that's conducive to her style of running," Toner said.
Carded for 1 ¼ miles on the turf, the New York provides Time and Motion a chance to win her first stakes since back-to-back victories in the Grade 2 Lake Placid on August 21 at Saratoga and the Grade 1 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup on October 15 at Keeneland. Hall of Fame rider Mike Smith is expected to have the call for the New York.
Grade 2, $500,000 New York
Probable: Achnaha (George Weaver); Apple Betty (Shug McGaughey); Dacita (C.Brown); Hawksmoor (Arnaud Delacour); Kitten's Roar (Michael Maker); Quidura (Motion); Sea Calisi (C. Brown); Suffused (Bill Mott); Summersault (Mark Hennig); Time and Motion (Jimmy Toner)
Hunter O'Riley came out of his
Friday breeze in good order as he prepares for the two-mile turf Belmont Gold Cup Invitational on
June 9, Toner added. The Kentucky-bred son of Tiz Wonderful worked four furlongs in 50.09 seconds on the dirt.
"He breezed a nice half-a-mile in 50 yesterday, so he looks ready to go," Toner said. "I've been breezing him in company with a horse called Manitoulin and they've been on the same schedule all spring, so I just kept breezing them together."
Smith is also expected to ride Hunter O'Riley.
Grade 3, $400,000 Belmont Gold Cup Invitational
Probable: Bigger Picture (Maker); Bullards Alley (Tim Glyshaw); Clondaw Warrior (Willie Mullins); Hunter O'Riley (Toner); Now We Can (Nick Clement); Red Cardinal (Andreas Wohler); Renown (Elizabeth Voss); Roman Approval (David Cannizzo); St Michel (Sir Mark Prescott); Taghleeb (Maker); Wall of Fire (Hugo Palmer); Wicklow Brave (Bill Mullins)
Possible: Patterson Cross (Mott); Messi (Motion); Rum Tum Tugger (Jonathan Sheppard)
Source: NYRA
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