Dickey 'flat-out pleased' with Flat Out
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Flat Out showed his readiness for Saturday's Breeders' Cup Classic by working a bullet half-mile in :46 3/5 on a chilly Sunday morning at Churchill Downs with jockey Greta Kuntzweiler aboard.
Fractions for the work accomplished shortly after 7 a.m. (EDT) over the fast track were :12 1/5, :23 4/5 and :35 1/5, and the son of Flatter galloped out five furlongs in :58 4/5 and six furlongs in 1:12 2/5.
The half-mile time was the best of 58 for the morning.
"I'm flat-out pleased," trainer Scooter Dickey said with a laugh. "I told Greta to let him do what he wants to do, then cluck to him at the eighth-pole and have him gallop out strong. We're ready."
Dickey said that Flat Out would gallop up to the Classic with jockey Alex Solis slated to get aboard for Friday morning's activity. Solis has ridden Flat Out in his past four starts, resulting in victories in the Grade 2 Suburban Handicap and Grade 1 Jockey Club Gold Cup and runner-up finishes in the Grade 1 Whitney Invitational Handicap and Grade 1 Woodward Stakes. |
Sunday's work was the second bullet move at Churchill Downs for Flat Out
since winning the Jockey Club Gold Cup at the Classic distance of
1 1/4 miles. Flat Out has run twice under the Twin Spires, finishing sixth both times.
"He had a bad trip the first time he ran here when he was a two-year-old,"
Dickey explained. "In the (Grade 1) Stephen Foster (Handicap), that was not a bad race. He was
trapped down on the inside and couldn't get out. All the others (that finished
in front of him) came down the middle of the track. He made a good move, but the
rail was dead that day."
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