Travers is Charitable Man's main goal

Trainer Kiaran McLaughlin said Sunday morning that CHARITABLE MAN (Lemon Drop

Kid) came out of

his victory in Saturday's Peter Pan S. (G2) in fine form and that he and

owner William K. Warren Jr. would decide on the colt's next start shortly.

"He came out of the race great," McLaughlin said of Charitable Man, who

covered the nine furlongs in 1:47.13. "The main decision is, 'Where do we go

next? What do we do?' I will be corresponding with Mr. Warren today and

tomorrow, and we are looking at the (June 6) Belmont S. (G1) or the (July 4) Dwyer (G2) with heading to the

(August 29) Shadwell Travers (G1) as the main objective.

"There's the Dwyer-Jim Dandy ([G2] on August 1)-Travers or the

Belmont-Travers, we're just looking for the right sequence of races."

Birdstone in 2004 was the last Travers winner to have prepped with a Belmont

victory, although Charitable Man's sire, Lemon Drop Kid, won both the Belmont

and the Travers in 1999, having prepped for the Mid-Summer Derby with a

second-place finish in the Jim Dandy.

"The neat thing about Charitable Man is that we won the Futurity

(G2) here going seven furlongs," McLaughlin said. "The distance, a mile to a

mile and a half, isn't a big issue, and he's three-for-three on dirt."

McLaughlin added that another of his star three-year-olds, West Point

Thoroughbred's MR. FANTASY (E Dubai), would start next either in the $600,000

Metropolitan H. (G1) at a mile on Memorial Day, May 25, or the

$250,000 Woody Stephens S. (G2) for three-year-olds going seven furlongs on Belmont

Stakes Day.

Trainer Barclay Tagg said that HELLO BROADWAY (Broken Vow) was "fine" Sunday

morning after setting blazing early fractions and then tiring to finish fourth in the Peter

Pan. Equipped with blinkers, Hello Broadway opened up by eight lengths under

Garrett Gomez as he rocketed through a half-mile in 44.89 and three-quarters in

1:08.93.

"Who would have thought he would run off like that?" said Tagg. "We'll get

inside his head and figure him out one of these days. In every race, it's always

been something with him."

With Florida Derby (G1) hero QUALITY ROAD (Elusive Quality) walking the shedrow for the fifth straight day as he

recovers from a slow-to-heal quarter crack in his right fore hoof, chances of

the bay colt making the Belmont appear very slim. Trainer

Jimmy Jerkens said he was not sure when the colt, who would likely have been

one of the favorites in the Kentucky Derby (G1) had he not developed the quarter crack, would

return to training.