Get Stormy in the mix for Bernard Baruch after clean scan
Multiple Grade 1 winner GET STORMY (Stormy Atlantic), who skipped Sunday’s
Fourstardave H. (G2) after a small bump was discovered on the edge of his right
front tendon last Thursday, appears to be OK and might even defend his title in
the Bernard Baruch H. (G2) on August 26.
“We scanned him again and everything looks clean,” trainer Tom Bush said.
“We’ll probably be a little conservative and give him a couple more days of tack
walking and jogging, but I think we’re OK.
“The Bernard Baruch is not out of the question, but we’ll just have to see
how we do here for the next five or six days before we can really say for
certain,” Bush said. “On ultrasound, we seem to be in good shape, so hopefully
it will stay that way.”
In 2010, the Sullimar Stable representative won both the Fourstardave and the
Bernard Baruch at Saratoga and he is undefeated in four career starts at the
Spa. So far in 2011, he is the owner of two Grade 1 grass victories in the
Maker’s Mark Mile at Keeneland on April 15 and the Woodford Reserve Turf Classic
at Churchill Downs on May 7. In his most recent outing on June 12, he was third
in the Monmouth S. (G3) behind Teaks North (Northern Afleet), who went on to win
Monmouth’s United Nations (G1) in his next start.
Bush added that Nyala Farm’s New York-bred turfer BANROCK (Go for Gin), who
breezed five furlongs in 1:02 3/5 over the Oklahoma turf course Monday, would
make his next start in the $100,000 West Point S. for state-breds on August 18.
The race will mark the eight-year-old gelding’s 40th career start and his fourth
in the West Point, which he won in 2008 and 2009. Last year, he finished fourth
in the race, then was sidelined with a gastrointestinal ailment in the fall.
Winless in five starts so far this year, Bush is encouraged by Banrock’s
previous West Point success.
“He’s won it twice and in 2008, when the turf was really, really soft, he
just galloped,” Bush recalled. “It seems like he’s had a pretty good hold on
that race.”