El Camino Real Derby winner Chase the Chaos, a 3-year-old son of Astern, will advance along the Kentucky Derby trail with a start in the Grade 2 San Felipe Stakes at Santa Anita on March 4, reports the Daily Racing Form.
The Pennsylvania-bred cost just $10,000 as a weanling at the Keeneland November sale, but has already gone on to win three of his six starts for earnings of $123,000. Owned by William Dory and Adam Ference, Chase the Chaos broke his maiden on turf at Canterbury Park but did manage a second-place finish in an off-the-turf maiden special weight in his debut at the same track.
Trainer Ed Moger, Jr. has the gelding based at Golden Gate, and sent him out to work four furlongs in 50 seconds over the synthetic a week after his 1 1/2-length win in the El Camino Real.
Chase the Chaos has earned 10 points on the Road to the Kentucky Derby and a free entry into the Preakness Stakes, but he is not nominated to the Triple Crown and would have to be made eligible via a $6,000 payment made by March 27, 2023.
“I know it's a huge jump up,” Moger told DRF. “We'll go from synthetic to dirt and we can find out where we're at.”
Read more at the Daily Racing Form.
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