Palace Malice steps up training regimen prior to Florida departure

Palace Malice steps up training regimen prior to Florida

departure

Dogwood Stable has announced that Palace Malice will now

train six days a week effective immediately. His regimen is being tightened from

every-other-day exercise as he prepares for the 2014 season. Dogwood president

Cot Campbell said that Palace Malice will go out at 8:30 a.m. (EST) every day but

Sunday, and will continue to walk and graze at 1:30 each afternoon.

"The distance of his gallops is being increased gradually

from a mile and an eighth to a mile and three-eighths, and he will have one

three-eighths of a mile breeze on January 4, prior to departing for Florida on

January 7," Campbell explained.

Palace Malice will go to trainer Todd

Pletcher's barn at Palm Meadows, where he will have the finishing touches applied for his 2014 debut in

New Orleans in the Grade 2, $400,000 New Orleans Handicap on March 29.

"This colt is a horse of easy temperament. However, he is a big, strapping

three-year-old race horse and on a cold morning, he can be a bit of a handful," Campbell

declared. "Great credit goes to Gene Tucker who rides him daily. He could not be

in better hands.

"Also, I certainly salute head yrainer Brad Stauffer, who

is responsible for a very valuable animal during this two-month winter vacation.

His groom Daniel Negrete is one of the best and I am grateful to him.

"I'm also most appreciative of the large number of

spectators who come to the barn and the clocker's stand to see the horse. They

are consistently very considerate and it's a pleasure to have them. We've had

visitors that have come for overnight stays in order to see the horse in the

mornings and we are touched by that.

"The town and the region have enjoyed the horse and Dogwood

Stable has enjoyed that," Campbell added.

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