Will Take Charge assigned 123 pounds for Donn; Private Zone
out
Will Take Charge, the recently crowned three-year-old male champion, will be
the 123-pound highweight for the Grade 1, $500,000 Donn Handicap on February 9
at Gulfstream Park.
Winner of the Travers Stakes, Clark Handicap and Pennsylvania Derby during
his award-winning season for trainer D. Wayne Lukas, the chestnut is scheduled
to arrive at Gulfstream on Tuesday. He will concede a minimum of four pounds to
his rivals in the nine-furlong event.
The Todd Pletcher-trained Revolutionary was assigned 119 pounds. Hero of the
Louisiana Derby and Withers Stakes, the dark bay colt made a successful return
on January 11 going a flat mile at Gulfstream.
Private Zone was allotted 118 pounds, but the Doug O’Neill trainee has been turned out at Sunshine Farms
near
Bradbury, California.
“He’ll have a couple weeks off,” assistant trainer Steve Rothblum
said. “He had a hard campaign flying around the country so we
decided to give him a little breather.”
The five-year-old gelding was last seen
finishing second in the Cigar Mile on November 30 following a 10th-placing in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint at Santa Anita on November 2. Prior to
that he captured the September 28 Vosburgh Invitational at Belmont.
Lea, who annexed the Hal’s Hope Handicap in his first start for trainer Bill
Mott on January 11, will carry 117 pounds. River Seven, who set a Gulfstream
track record in winning the Harlan’s Holiday Stakes on December 22 for trainer
Nick Gonzalez, was assigned 116 pounds.
Also in at the 116-pound level are Neck ‘n Neck, third in the Hal’s Hope for
trainer Ian Wilkes; and Romansh, who was last seen winning the Discovery
Handicap in November on behalf of trainer Tom Albertrani.
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