Medal Count to work at Churchill before shipping next week to Belmont

Medal Count is set to join his Belmont Stakes rivals next Thursday (Keeneland/Coady Photography)

Grade 3 winner Medal Count, eighth-place finisher in
the May 3 Kentucky Derby, will work Saturday under
the Twin Spires before shipping to Belmont Park next Thursday where he will try
to spoil the Triple Crown hopes of California Chrome in the Belmont Stakes on June 7.

The bay son of Dynaformer galloped at Churchill on
Thursday morning after the renovation break under exercise rider Faustino
Aguilar for trainer Dale Romans.

“He’s doing great,” Romans said. “He’s a Triple Crown-caliber horse, needs to
run a Triple Crown race and should improve going a mile-and-a-half. As we know
it, it’s been close to 40 years, 11 chances; no one has been able to do it
(sweep the Triple Crown) yet so California Chrome has a tough thing to do.”

When asked what type of trip Medal Count would need to be able to win the
Belmont Stakes, Romans explained, “He should be laying fairly close going a
mile-and-a-half because you can’t let them get away from you in that race.”