Indy Point’s connections learned lesson from Arlington
Million
Since Indy Point’s trip north to Mandella’s barn in California this year,
Mandella was asked about pre-race plans between himself and Stevens
“I won’t be telling him much,” Mandella said. “He knows him now. We learned a
“But in his last race (a winning effort in the John Henry Turf Championship
Little Mike, the defending Turf champion, had his penultimate training day
“This is really exciting,” owner Carlo Vaccarezza said. “It’s quite an
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Phipps Stable’s Point of Entry, runner-up to Little Mike last year, prepared
for a return from a five-month layoff in the Turf by galloping 1 1/2 miles
Thursday morning.
After the five-year-old son of Dynaformer cooled out, assistant trainer Gene
Recio led him to the edge of the horse path leading to the track, where the
multiple Grade 1 winner stood quietly while observing the activity around him.
“It was just leaving him out of his stall a little while. We hosed him for a
little while and instead of putting him back in the stall we decided to let him
stand in the sun,” trainer Shug McGaughey said. “If we were in New York, we’d be
grazing him. But there’s no grass here to graze. But he likes standing in the
sun.”
McGaughey hopes the 2012 Turf runner-up has his day in the sun on Saturday
afternoon.
“I think he deserves to win a race like this. Is the layoff a concern? Maybe.
But I think we’ve got him where we want him. He gets better every day,”
McGaughey said. “I think he’s fit enough, but we won’t know until Saturday
afternoon. I’m looking forward to it.”
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