Untapable breezes, likely a go for Apple Blossom

Untapable pleased trainer Steve Asmussen with her half-mile breeeze (Oaklawn Park/Coady Photography) Champion filly Untapable (Tapit) moved closer to an expected start in Friday’s $600,000 Apple Blossom H. (G1) at Oaklawn with a maintenance work Monday morning for trainer Steve Asmussen. Untapable went an easy half-mile in :48 approximately 30 minutes after the track opened for training. The surface, which would become shrouded in fog following Untapable’s work, was rated fast by clockers. It was the best of 18 recorded at the distance. Asked approximately an hour after the work if Untapable was a go for the Apple Blossom, Asmussen said: “This morning’s breeze sure looked like it.”

Asmussen said he would confer with Ron Winchell and David Fiske, co-owner and
Winchell Thoroughbreds racing manager, respectively, for additional feedback.
Untapable, last year’s champion three-year-old filly, ran second in her 2015
debut, the $300,000 Azeri (G2) March 14.

Monday’s work was Untapable’s third since the Azeri. Clockers caught
Untapable’s final quarter-mile in :23 and galloping out five furlongs in 1:01
2/5.

“I thought she went beautiful,” Asmussen said. “It looks like all systems
go.”

Other locally based horses scheduled to run in the Apple Blossom are Azeri
winner Gold Medal Dancer (Medaglia d’Oro) and Pearl Turn (Bernardini), a March
14 allowance winner. Sugar Shock (Candy Ride) will be entered, co-owner and
trainer Doug Anderson said. She is also entered in Wednesday’s $100,000
Carousel. Post positions for the Apple Blossom will be drawn Tuesday morning.

Asmussen’s top older horse, multiple graded stakes winner Tapiture (Tapit),
breezed a half-mile in :50 Monday morning, but next-race plans are still pending
for the four-year-old old colt, the trainer said. Tapiture finished fifth in the
$250,000 Razorback H. (G3) in his season debut March 14. Tapiture is under
consideration for Saturday’s $600,000 Oaklawn H. (G2).

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