Palace Malice to target fives stakes in 2015, culminating in BC Classic
Palace Malice to target fives stakes in 2015, culminating
in BC Classic
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Palace Malice will target five stakes in his 2015 campaign, starting with the Grade 3 Westchester Stakes in May and culminating with the Breeders' Cup Classic in November, it was announced Wednesday by Cot Campbell, speaking for co-owners Dogwood Stable and Three Chimneys Farm. The hero of the Grade 1 Metropolitan Mile and three other graded stakes in 2014, Palace Malice's campaign was aborted in midsummer with a cannon bone bruise. He rehabbed at Three Chimneys this fall and is now in full training at Dogwood's facility in Aiken, South Carolina. "The logic of the five-race campaign was easily determined by Three Chimneys, Dogwood and Todd Pletcher," Campbell explained. "The Westchester is the ideal Belmont prep for an appearance in the Grade 1 Metropolitan Mile, in which he defeated Goldencents, a two-time Grade 1 Breeders' Cup (Dirt) Mile winner this past year. "We would follow with three Grade 1 stakes -- the Whitney, early at Saratoga, the Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont in the fall and the Breeders' Cup Classic at Keeneland.
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"The four-year-old son of Curlin out of Palace Rumor is
galloping now in Aiken and will train there until early January when he goes to
Palm Beach Downs and Todd Pletcher.
"It will be hard for Todd to hold him until May, but we do
want to concentrate on the big races during the latter part of the year,"
Campbell concluded.
Palace Malice has career earnings of $2,676,135, including
a rare combination of wins in the Belmont Stakes and Met Mile. In three years,
the bay colt has started 17 times, with his
seven wins also including a trio of Grade 2 victories in the Jim Dandy Stakes, Gulfstream
Park Handicap and New Orleans Handicap as well as the Westchester.
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