Claiborne Farm and Adele Dilschneider’s Bind proved
no disappointment to the many who backed him during the third race on
Saturday’s expanded Louisiana Derby Preview Day program, winning the event by 9
1/2-lengths while registering the fastest six-furlong time of 1:08.80
recorded this season at Fair Grounds.
“I’m not sure whether his next race will be here or in Kentucky,”
trainer Al Stall Jr. said Sunday morning, “and as for (Adele
Dilschneider’s) Apart (third in Saturday’s Mineshaft Handicap) we have
no excuses. He just got outrun yesterday.”
DECISIVE MOMENT INJURED SLIGHTLY
Just for Fun Stable’s Decisive Moment, who set the
pace in Saturday’s Grade II Risen Star Stakes before weakening to fifth
at the wire, came out of the race with a slight soft tissue injury to the left
hind, trainer Juan Arias said Sunday morning as he hosed down the
sensitive area.
“It’s nothing very serious, we should be able to get it
cleared up fairly quickly,” Arias said. “We’ll be taking him back to Florida
in a couple of days.”
Later Sunday morning, Decisive Moment’s jockey Kerwin
Clark described how the race was run. “He’s a better horse than the way he
ran yesterday,” Clark
said. “Things were going along fine but when the others started coming to him,
he bobbled a little bit and after that things didn’t go quite as well for us.
But he didn’t quit on me. He still only got beat five or six lengths.”