Last updated: 2/20/12 1:26 PM
Horse of the Year Havre de Grace continued to progress toward her 2012 debut
in March, breezing five furlongs in :59 4/5 on Monday morning at Fair
Grounds.
The five-year-old mare, owned by Rick Porter’s Fox Hill Farms, once again
posted the first timed move of the morning just after the track opened for
training at 6 a.m. (CST). Working from the five-eighths pole to the finish line
with exercise rider Jen Brasser aboard, Fair Grounds clockers recorded splits of
:12, :24 1/5, :36 1/5, and :48. Brasser did not ask Havre de Grace for anything
after the wire, galloping out six furlongs into the turn in 1:14 3/5.
It was the first five-eighths move for Havre de Grace following two half-mile
breezes earlier this month.