Three optional claiming races and the first turf sprint of the season
for 2-year-olds are on tap as a six-day holiday week gets under way
Wednesday.
Bold Warrior, an up-and-coming 3-year-old who was
scratched from the Grade 2 Woody Stephens on Belmont Stakes day, will
break from the outside in a field of five and looms a prohibitive choice
in race 3, a $52,000 sprint at seven furlongs with first-level
allowance conditions.
“He’s a big figure man – he wanted to put
him in and take a look,” said trainer Allen Jerkens of Irving Cowan, who
bred and owns Bold Warrior as well as dam Hollywood Wildcat, the
champion 3-year-old filly of 1993, who has produced several stakes
winners, including Breeders’ Cup Mile winner War Chant.
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