December 4, 2024

Unbridled Forever on course for FG Oaks

Last updated: 3/9/14 7:41 PM











Unbridled Forever drilled six furlongs in 1:12 2/5 Saturday
(Lou Hodges Jr./Hodges Photography)





Charles Fipke’s Unbridled Forever, who emerged as the 8-1 third choice in the
wagering when the Kentucky Oaks Future Wager closed earlier this month, breezed
six furlongs Saturday morning in 1:12 2/5 in preparation for the upcoming Grade
2 Fair Grounds Oaks on Louisiana Derby Day March 29 at Fair Grounds.

“I was very pleased with her work yesterday,” trainer Dallas Stewart said during
training hours Sunday morning when speaking of his star filly who has been idle
since winning Fair Grounds’ $125,000 Silverbulletday Stakes January 18.
That was the Crescent City oval’s first leg of its three-race series for
sophomore fillies that concludes with the Fair Grounds Oaks.

“We got just what we wanted. She worked good, galloped out good and ate up
good last night. She’s right on schedule.”

Stewart trained the 2006 Kentucky Oaks winner Lemons Forever, who subsequently
foaled Unbridled Forever in Kentucky on April 23, 2011. The conditioner, a
native of nearby McComb, Mississippi, elected to bypass the Rachel
Alexandra Stakes with Unbridled Forever as the middle leg of Fair Grounds’
series and has saved her for the Fair Grounds Oaks by design.

“There are plenty of big races later on the season,” Stewart said in the days
immediately following her Silverbulletday Stakes victory.

Five of the last nine Fair Grounds Oaks winners have gone on to victory in the
Kentucky Oaks a few weeks later in the spring.



Stewart worked West Point Thoroughbreds’ Grade 2 Louisiana Derby candidate Commanding
Curve and Charles Fipke’s Grade 2 New Orleans Handicap candidate Golden Soul in
company going three-quarters on Friday to post breezes of 1:13 3/5 over a
track rated good. Seven-time Fair Grounds jockey champion Robby Albarado was
aboard Commanding Curve and is expected to ride him once again in the Louisiana
Derby.

A rider for Golden Soul, who finished second behind Orb in last
spring’s Kentucky Derby, has not been determined for the upcoming New Orleans Handicap, which will also be contested March 29 as part of the Louisiana Derby
Day program.

Paul and Andrena Van Doren’s Delta Jackpot winner Rise Up worked with blinkers
on when he posted a four-furlong move in :48 1/5 on Mardi Gras morning, and 10-time Fair Grounds trainer champion Tom Amoss advised
Saturday afternoon that his colt will have blinkers on for his next start, which
has yet to be determined.

The 101st running of the Louisiana Derby remains a
possibility but not necessarily a probability for Rise Up’s next start.

The Amoss-trained Grand Contender, owned by Maggi Moss,, who breezed four
furlongs in :48 3/5 Saturday morning, is being pointed for a next start in the
one-mile $75,000 Borgata Stakes at Delta Downs this Saturday. The six-year-old
gelding was runner-up in Fair Grounds’ Mineshaft Handicap on February 22.

Klaravich Stable and William Lawrence’s Sum of the Parts, another Amoss trainee,
posted a :48 1/5 half-mile move Saturday in preparation for his start in Fair
Grounds’ $60,000 Colonel Power Stakes this coming Saturday at about 5 1/2 furlongs
over the Stall-Wilson turf course.




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