Get Stormy in the mix for Bernard Baruch after clean scan

Get Stormy in the mix for Bernard Baruch after clean scan

Multiple Grade 1 winner GET STORMY (Stormy Atlantic), who skipped Sunday's

Fourstardave H. (G2) after a small bump was discovered on the edge of his right

front tendon last Thursday, appears to be OK and might even defend his title in

the Bernard Baruch H. (G2) on August 26.

"We scanned him again and everything looks clean," trainer Tom Bush said.

"We'll probably be a little conservative and give him a couple more days of tack

walking and jogging, but I think we're OK.

"The Bernard Baruch is not out of the question, but we'll just have to see

how we do here for the next five or six days before we can really say for

certain," Bush said. "On ultrasound, we seem to be in good shape, so hopefully

it will stay that way."

In 2010, the Sullimar Stable representative won both the Fourstardave and the

Bernard Baruch at Saratoga and he is undefeated in four career starts at the

Spa. So far in 2011, he is the owner of two Grade 1 grass victories in the

Maker's Mark Mile at Keeneland on April 15 and the Woodford Reserve Turf Classic

at Churchill Downs on May 7. In his most recent outing on June 12, he was third

in the Monmouth S. (G3) behind Teaks North (Northern Afleet), who went on to win

Monmouth's United Nations (G1) in his next start.

Bush added that Nyala Farm's New York-bred turfer BANROCK (Go for Gin), who

breezed five furlongs in 1:02 3/5 over the Oklahoma turf course Monday, would

make his next start in the $100,000 West Point S. for state-breds on August 18.

The race will mark the eight-year-old gelding's 40th career start and his fourth

in the West Point, which he won in 2008 and 2009. Last year, he finished fourth

in the race, then was sidelined with a gastrointestinal ailment in the fall.

Winless in five starts so far this year, Bush is encouraged by Banrock's

previous West Point success.

"He's won it twice and in 2008, when the turf was really, really soft, he

just galloped," Bush recalled. "It seems like he's had a pretty good hold on

that race."