All In Stable’s Willcox Inn, third in Keeneland’s Grade
I Breeders Futurity last Oct. 9 and third in Churchill’s Grade II Breeders’
Cup Juvenile Turf on Nov. 6, returned to competition for the first time
this year with a solid runner-up finish when beaten a length in Fair Grounds’
$60,000 Grindstone Stakes last Saturday.
What might be next for the sophomore son of Harlan’s Holiday?
“As of right now, we’re leaning in the direction of the (Grade
I Toyota)
Blue Grass (Stakes at Keeneland on April 16),” said trainer Mike
Stidham during training hours on Monday at Fair Grounds. “There are eight
of us including me and Hilary (Pridham, assistant to Stidham) in
on that partnership.
“The Willcox Inn is a beautiful old hotel in Aiken,
South Carolina,”
Stidham said. “We’ve stayed there a lot of times when we’ve gone to Aiken for
the Aiken Trials in past years.”