Sum of the Parts, Smarty's Echo work toward BC

Two-time Phoenix winner Sum of the Parts, worked a half-mile in :50 3/5 under

jockey Leandro Goncalves shortly after 6 a.m. (EDT) Saturday on the main track

at Keeneland.

"He did it well and in hand," trainer Tom Amoss said. "He worked a little

quicker than he did before the Phoenix (:51 2/5) and he'll have one more easy

work like this next Saturday or Sunday."

Fractions for the work from Keeneland clockers were :13 and :26 1/5 with a

1:04 1/5 gallop out for five furlongs.

Sum of the Parts had three works here after his Phoenix victory last year

prior to running fourth in the $1.5 million Breeders' Cup Sprint. He will have

only two works this time prior to leaving for Santa Anita on October 29.

"We are going to change up the game plan this time," Amoss said. "The best is

yet to come with him. His race in the Phoenix was not his 100 percent best race.

He is the quickest horse in the first 10 steps out of the gate I have ever had."

Goncalves will have the mount in the Breeders' Cup.

Another contender for the Breeders' Cup was in action Saturday morning at

Keeneland. The horse was Smarty's Echo, runner-up in the Breeders' Futurity on

October 5.

With E.T. Baird, who rode Smarty's Echo in the Breeders' Futurity, aboard,

the colt worked five furlongs in 1:00 4/5. Clockers caught the colt in splits of

:12 1/5, :24 3/5, :37 1/5, 1:00 4/5 and out six furlongs in 1:14 2/5.

Anne P. Smith trains Smarty's Echo, a son of Smarty Jones who is scheduled to

make his next start in the $2 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile on November 2.

The Breeders' Futurity marked the third start for Smarty's Echo, who began

his career at Arlington Park with a third and a win. He took the lead entering

the stretch of the Breeders' Futurity and was passed by eventual winner We Miss

Artie, who won by 2 3/4 lengths.

'Every race he's learning, learning, learning," Smith said about Smarty's

Echo. "The owners have goals to try to get a horse there (to the Breeders' Cup),

and I think this horse can compete."

Smith, who is in her second year of training, has horses at Keeneland for the

first time. Her eight runners include Windy Hill's Grade 2 winner Nate's

Mineshaft.

Smith said Smarty's Echo, a graduate of the 2011 Keeneland November Breeding

Stock Sale, is scheduled to work again next Saturday and travel to California

the following day.

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