All four winners of Santa Anita's stakes on Saturday – Slow Down Andy, Dr, Schivel, Lane Way, and Hong Kong Harry – were resting and doing well Sunday morning. Three from that group will now head to the Breeders' Cup at Santa Anita on Nov. 3-4.
Slow Down Andy, front-running winner of the Awesome Again (G2), “ate up a full feed tub and is doing great this morning,” said Leandro Mora, assistant for trainer Doug O'Neill.
Slow Down Andy won the 1 1/8-mile Awesome Again by 2 ¼ lengths as the 2-1 favorite under Mario Gutierrez, earning a 101 Beyer Speed Figure. The victory was his first since winning the Del Mar Derby (G2) on turf last September and his first-ever Grade 1 score. In three previous starts this year, the 4-year-old Nyquist colt was third in the Pacific Classic (G1), second in the San Diego Handicap (G2) and off-the-board in the Metropolitan Handicap (G1) at Belmont Park on July 29.
Second in last year's Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile (G1) at Keeneland, Slow Down Andy this year will target the $6-million Breeders' Cup Classic (G1) at 1 ¼ miles.
Dr. Schivel scored by a determined head over Speed Boat Beach in the Santa Anita Sprint Championship (G2) under Juan Hernandez, earning a 103 Beyer.
“This horse keeps coming back off extended vacations and is always pretty much the same horse,” Glatt said. “That's pretty hard to do. We'll see if he has one more good one in him.”
Dr. Schivel will now get a second crack in the Breeders' Cup Sprint (G1). Two years ago at Del Mar in the Del Mar Sprint, the now 5-year-old Violence colt endured a heart-breaking nose loss to Aloha West.
“You're just hopeful for opportunities and the Breeders' Cup is a big one,” Glatt said. “He'll be on his home track. There will be plenty of tough competition I'm sure, but we'll give it our best shot.”
Lane Way's victory came by a half-length under Mike Smith in the Eddie D (G2), which was originally scheduled for the downhill turf course but was moved to the turf chute and run at 6 ½ furlongs due to rain. It was Lane Way's second stakes tally this year and first career graded-stakes win.
Trained by Richard Mandella, the 6-year-old gelding by Into Mischief earned a 95 Beyer and will be pointed to the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint (G1) on Nov. 4. It will be contested at five furlongs, which Mandella acknowledged is perhaps shorter than Lane Way's ideal trip.
“They're not going to change it for me,” he said.
Hong Kong Harry, a neck winner of the City of Hope Mile (G2), is not nominated to the Breeders' Cup and won't be supplemented, trainer Phil D'Amato said Sunday.
“The owners would have to put up a couple hundred thousand to run. We're going to just wait for the Seabiscuit,” D'Amato added. The Seabiscuit Handicap (G2) at 1 1/16 miles on turf is scheduled for Nov. 25 at Del Mar.
Owned Scott Anastasi, Jimmy Ukegaw,a and Tony Vallaza, 6-year-old Hong Kong Harry, who earned a 96 Beyer yesterday, has a record of 10-2-3 in 17 starts and earnings of $775,097.
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