Flat Out Arrives At Churchill Downs For Breeders’ Cup Vintage Bid
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011) – Flat Out, the millionaire who ruled competitors within the Grade I Jockey Membership Gold Cup previous this month, was once the primary main Breeders’ Cup Vintage contender to reach at Churchill Downs when he settled into Barn 47 Tuesday night following a flight from New York.
“He shipped neatly and he is doing excellent,” mentioned 70-year-old teacher Scooter Dickey, who trains the 5-year-old horse for Artwork Preston’s Preston Stables LLC.
The twenty eighth Breeders’ Cup Global Championships go back to Churchill Downs for a document 8th time on Friday, Nov. 4 and Saturday, Nov. 5. The 15 championship races price $26 million over two days culminate with the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Vintage for 3-year-olds and up.
Along with Flat Out, different anticipated headliners within the 1 1/4-mile Vintage come with Uncle Mo, the 2010 champion 2-year-old colt who overlooked this yr’s Kentucky Derby with a unprecedented liver ailment however returned to most sensible shape Oct. 1 with a swift three-length win within the Grade II Kelso Handicap; the superstar filly Havre de Grace, who has received 5 of six begins this season together with a 1 1/4-length overcome male competitors within the Grade I Woodward at Saratoga; and convincing Metropolitan and Whitney Handicap hero Tizway.
Flat Out, a Florida-bred bay son of Flatter, put in combination a string of 4 spectacular performances this summer season in New York that concluded with a 2 1/4-length victory within the dust over Drosselmeyer in Belmont Park’s $750,000 Jockey Membership Gold Cup on Oct. 1 – a “Win and You are In” race during which the Breeders’ Cup pays access charges to start out and supply a $10,000 trip allowance. Flat Out’s summer season marketing campaign additionally integrated a win within the Grade II Suburban Handicap and runner-up efforts within the Grade I Whitney Handicap and Grade I Woodward.
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“It is been an excellent summer season and he in reality ran neatly,” mentioned Dickey, who was once given his first style of Grade I luck after six many years as a teacher. “He is the type you need and the type you hope to get.”
Previous to his 4 begins within the Empire State, Flat Out completed 6th in the back of Pool Play in Churchill Downs’ Grade I Stephen Foster Handicap Offered via Abu Dhabi. The Stephen Foster is the one time Flat Out has completed off-the-board in his 2011 marketing campaign; then again, Dickey does no longer imagine it was once as a result of he did not deal with the outside on the Louisville observe.
“He is at all times labored neatly right here and he did not run a foul race within the Stephen Foster,” Dickey mentioned. “The horses that completed neatly have been all coming down the center of the observe and he (Flat Out) was once at the rail. I simply do not suppose the rail was once where to be that day and if he have been additional outdoor he would have saved coming.”
Flat Out will go back to the Churchill Downs observe for the primary time since June on Thursday and is anticipated to have a exercise this weekend.
“He’s going to pass to the observe day after today (Thursday) and gallop a mile and a part,” Dickey mentioned. “I will paintings him someday this weekend, however I am not certain which day. It may well be as early as Friday or as past due as Monday. I wish to wait and spot how the elements is and ensure he’s settled in utterly sooner than I breeze him. We will see the way it is going, however I will most likely give him another cast paintings after that after which one thing in reality simple the week sooner than (the Vintage).”
Flat Out joins a number of different conceivable Breeders’ Cup contenders already within the Churchill Downs strong house. They come with (with race, teacher and barn quantity):
Aikenite (Filth Mile or Dash, Todd Pletcher, 34),
Animal Spirits (Juvenile Fillies Turf, Al Stall Jr., 47)
A.U. Miner (Marathon, Clark Hanna, 46)
Chamberlain Bridge (Turf Dash, Bret Calhoun, 22)
Nation Day (Turf Dash, Steve Margolis, 23)
Court docket Imaginative and prescient (Mile, Dale Romans, 4)
Daddy Nostril Best possible (Juvenile Turf, Steve Asmussen, 38)
Dullahan (Juvenile or Juvenile Turf, Romans, 4)
Flat Out (Vintage, Scooter Dickey, 47)
Large Ryan (Dash, Bisnath Parboo, 21)
Hamazing Future (Dash, Wayne Lukas, 44)
Havelock (Turf Dash, Darrin Miller, 41)
Her Smile (F & M Dash, Pletcher, 34)
Project Impazible (Vintage, Pletcher, 34)
On Hearth Child (Juvenile Fillies, Gary Hartlage, 37)
Optimizer (Juvenile or Juvenile Turf, Lukas, 44)
Rocket Twentyone (Juvenile Fillies, Tom Howard, 32)
Sassy Symbol (F & M Dash, Romans, 4)
Savvy Superb (Girls’ Vintage, Pletcher, 34)
Seeker (Juvenile Dash, Asmussen, 38)
Shackleford (Filth Mile or Vintage, Romans, 4)
Candy Cat (Juvenile Fillies Turf, Pletcher, 34)
Trinniberg (Juvenile Dash, Parboo, 21)
Wilburn (Filth Mile, Asmussen, 38).
A number of different horses will converge on Churchill Downs within the coming weeks. Constitution flights are scheduled for Oct. 24 (New York), Oct. 28 (California), Oct. 29 (New York), Oct. 30 (California), Oct. 31 (Maryland) and Nov. 1 (California). Ecu charters are anticipated across the weekend of Oct. 29-30.
