Square Eddie

[HaloWishingwell]

Found this in the Santa Anita stable notes....
SQUARE EDDIE TO USE LEXINGTON STAKES AS KENTUCKY DERBY PREP
Breeders’ Cup Juvenile runner-up Square Eddie, who had been expected to train up to the Kentucky Derby on May 2, instead will first run in next Saturday’s Coolmore Lexington Stakes at Keeneland, if all goes well following a scheduled six furlong workout at Hollywood Park tomorrow.
“That’s the tentative game plan,” trainer Doug O’Neill said Friday morning from his Hollywood headquarters, where Square Eddie has been training forwardly after recovering from shin problems that sidelined him since early February.
In his lone start as a 3-year-old, the son of Smart Strike owned by J. Paul Reddam ran second to The Pamplemousse in the Grade III San Rafael Stakes at one mile on Jan. 17.
“Square Eddie is really doing well,” O’Neill continued. “The thinking is it would be smarter to get a race into him before the Derby, rather than to train up to it.” Edgar Prado rides in the Lexington.
Square Eddie won the Grade I Breeders’ Futurity on Keeneland’s Polytrack in his first start in the United States last Oct. 4 before running second to champion Midshipman in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Oak Tree on Oct. 25. He made his 3-year-old debut in the San Rafael. The Canadian-bred colt has a 2-3-1 record from seven starts, with earnings of $787,366, of which $774,981 are graded.

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Originally Posted by HaloWishingwell

Found this in the Santa Anita stable notes....
SQUARE EDDIE TO USE LEXINGTON STAKES AS KENTUCKY DERBY PREP
Breeders’ Cup Juvenile runner-up Square Eddie, who had been expected to train up to the Kentucky Derby on May 2, instead will first run in next Saturday’s Coolmore Lexington Stakes at Keeneland, if all goes well following a scheduled six furlong workout at Hollywood Park tomorrow.
“That’s the tentative game plan,” trainer Doug O’Neill said Friday morning from his Hollywood headquarters, where Square Eddie has been training forwardly after recovering from shin problems that sidelined him since early February.
In his lone start as a 3-year-old, the son of Smart Strike owned by J. Paul Reddam ran second to The Pamplemousse in the Grade III San Rafael Stakes at one mile on Jan. 17.
“Square Eddie is really doing well,” O’Neill continued. “The thinking is it would be smarter to get a race into him before the Derby, rather than to train up to it.” Edgar Prado rides in the Lexington.
Square Eddie won the Grade I Breeders’ Futurity on Keeneland’s Polytrack in his first start in the United States last Oct. 4 before running second to champion Midshipman in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Oak Tree on Oct. 25. He made his 3-year-old debut in the San Rafael. The Canadian-bred colt has a 2-3-1 record from seven starts, with earnings of $787,366, of which $774,981 are graded.

I'm pulling for him to be in Kentucky on the first Saturday in May for purely selfish reasons.

I just want at least one horse I've seen up close and personal (last Breeders' Cup) to be in the race.

Of course if NorCal and Ohio's Jerry Hollendorfer gets there with Chocolate Candy, this multiple times transplanted Buckeye now in California will be watching with interest, too.

And of course, I'm not probably not talking betting interest.