STARDOM BOUND (Tapit), the champion two-year-old filly of 2008, completed her
major work for next Saturday’s $400,000 Ashland S. (G1) by working six Polytrack
furlongs in 1:12 3/5 on a blustery Sunday morning at Keeneland.
With regular work rider Goncalino Almeida up and trainer Rick Dutrow looking
on from the grandstand, Stardom Bound came on the track at 7:15 a.m. (EDT).
With light rain falling and racing into a strong headwind down the
backstretch, Stardom Bound reeled off fractions of :25, :37, :48 2/5 and 1:01,
with a gallop out time for seven furlongs of 1:25 4/5 according to Keeneland
clockers.
Dutrow gave the work a thumbs up back at Barn 28 before heading to the
airport for a flight to South Florida.
“The boy said she went well and that she likes this track, which is going to
help us,” Dutrow said. “The race is coming up tough and she is going to have to
show up.”
Stardom Bound will be seeking her sixth consecutive Grade 1 victory in the
Ashland. Winner of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) last October to lock
up divisional honors, Stardom Bound has won the Las Virgenes S. (G1) and Santa
Anita Oaks (G1) in her two starts this season.
Entries for the Ashland, contested over 1 1/16 miles, will be taken
Wednesday.
Stardom Bound had worked five furlongs at Keeneland on March 22 with Almeida
coming in for the work from California.
“It was my first time at Keeneland and first time back in Kentucky since the
Derby in 1995,” said Almeida, who rode Jumron to a fourth-place finish behind
Thunder Gulch that year. “It has been a long time.”