Point of Entry returns to worktab; Orb drills bullet

Prominent horses trained by Hall of Famer Shug McGaughey turned in Saturday

breezes in separate locations, with Kentucky Derby winner Orb working at Fair

Hill in Maryland and turf star Point of Entry rejoining the worktab at Belmont

after spending the past three months recovering from a non-displaced condylar

fracture.

One day after Point of Entry picked up his fifth Grade 1 victory in the June

8 Manhattan Handicap, his connections detected the condylar fracture of his left

hind cannon bone, which required surgery. On Saturday, Point of Entry breezed

three furlongs in :37 2/5 on Belmont's fast main track.

McGaughey said that if everything goes perfectly, Point of Entry could be

ready in time for the Breeders' Cup Turf in November at Santa Anita. Point of

Entry was second in the 2012 Breeders' Cup Turf after winning the Joe Hirsch

Turf Classic Invitational.

"He had a nice work yesterday," McGaughey said. "He came out of it very well

and galloped this morning a little ways.

"All I'm going to do is just sit around here and keep doing it as long he is

OK and see where it takes me. My plans would be the Breeders' Cup, but I don't

think I'll be able to get a race into him."

Stuart S. Janney III and Phipps Stable's Orb, third in the Travers on August

24 in his most recent start, breezed five furlongs in a bullet 1:01, easily the

fastest of 15 works at the distance on Fair Hill's fast main track. He is

targeting the Jockey Club Gold Cup Invitational on September 28.

"He went excellent," McGaughey said. "The reports were all nothing but

positive, not only from his camp but also from some people I talked to. They

said it was a terrific."

McGaughey added that Emory Hamilton's Hungry Island exited her runner-up

performance in Saturday's Noble Damsel in good shape and that she could make her

next start in either the First Lady on October 5 at Keeneland or the Athenia on

October 12 at Belmont.

"I thought she ran good yesterday," McGaughey said. "She probably would have

been a little better if she could swing to the outside, but that wasn't the

case."

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