Nashua S. (G3) runner-up HELLO BROADWAY (Broken Vow) breezed Friday morning
at Gulfstream Park for trainer Barclay Tagg, drilling a bullet five furlongs in
1:00 on the fast dirt. The move was part of the Elizabeth Valando homebred’s
preparation for his seasonal debut in the $150,000 Hutcheson S. (G2) going seven
furlongs.
“He went right around the time I wanted from him today,” Tagg said. “All the
people I’ve asked who had watches out had about the same time. It was a pretty
good work.”
Tagg hopes to have Hello Broadway register two more five-furlong works before
the Hutcheson, which is scheduled for January 30. The plan from there would be
to make the $250,000 Fountain of Youth S. (G2) going a mile on February 28 and
the $750,000 Florida Derby (G1) at 1 1/8 miles on March. 28.
“I can’t ramp him up too much,” Tagg said of Hello Broadway’s looming
schedule. “He’s had a couple easy half-mile workouts. I think I can get two more
five-furlong works before the next race. The ‘Hutch’ is a sprint, so I can let
that race do some of the work for me. He’s a natural distance horse and there’s
a grind coming up. It’s six major races in less than six months.”
Hello Broadway’s half-brother Nobiz Like Shobiz (Albert the Great) won the
2007 Holy Bull S. (G3) at Gulfstream for Tagg before taking the Wood Memorial
(G1) at Aqueduct. He finished third in the Fountain of Youth between those wins
and eventually ran 10th in the Kentucky Derby (G1) in the worst finish of his
career.
Tagg, with the help of the stakes schedule here this winter, has tweaked the
outline for Hello Broadway.
“I never fully stopped on him,” he said. “I just went a while without giving
him a breeze. The schedule is nicer this year. The only drawback would be having
to start in a sprint, but at least it lets us stretch him out leading up to the
spring.”