Hot Stones works seven furlongs for expected stretch-out in Shuvee

Bed o' Roses Handicap winner Hot Stones will

stretch out to 1 1/8 miles for her next start in the Grade 3, $200,000 Shuvee

Handicap on July 27 at Saratoga.

Trained by Bruce Levine for co-owners Roddy Valente and

Charles Casale, the four-year-old daughter of Bustin Stones worked seven furlongs in 1:30

2/5 over the fast main track at the Spa Sunday morning.

"She started slow and finished up good," Levine said. "We

just kind of wanted to put some stamina and a little air in her. We know she's

fast. The mile and an eighth is a question mark. She came out of (her last race)

good. I couldn't be happier. We'll keep our fingers crossed."

Co-bred in New York by Valente and Jerry Bilinski, Hot

Stones broke her maiden going six furlongs at Saratoga last summer by 4 1/4

lengths and five of

her six wins in 11 lifetime starts have come in sprints. She won an open

allowance going a mile at Aqueduct in January to kick off her 2014 campaign.

"This will give her a chance to go a mile and an eighth,"

Valente said. "She's been two turns at Aqueduct. If she doesn't do good here

we'll just drop her back and go seven-eighths in the (Grade 1, $500,000) Ballerina

(on August

23 at Saratoga). Some of the bigger horses just ran so they won't be in this one. It just

seems like the right place to try it."