Wise Dan, winner of three rich stakes since the summer, will bypass
the River City Handicap on Saturday in favor of the Nov. 25 Clark
Handicap, trainer Charlie Lopresti said.
Wise Dan had been named the 122-pound highweight for the Grade 3,
$100,000 River City, which goes at 1 1/8 miles on turf. The Grade 1,
$500,000 Clark goes at the same distance on the main track. Other known
prospects for the Clark at this early date include Flat Out, Ruler On
Ice, and Mission Impazible.
Lopresti, who incurred surely the toughest beat in his nearly two
decades of training when Turallure was beaten a nose in the Nov. 5
Breeders’ Cup Mile, sent out the first-place finisher, Successful Dan,
in the Clark last year, only to see the gelding disqualified for stretch
interference.
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