Preakness Stakes (G1) winner Early Voting will join stablemate Zandon in the starting gate for the $600,000 Jim Dandy Stakes (G2) July 30 at Saratoga Race Course, while unbeaten Jack Christopher is to be the stable's lone representative in the $1 million Haskell (G1) Saturday at Monmouth Park.
Deciding to bypass the Haskell with Early Voting, trainer Chad Brown shipped the Gun Runner colt from Belmont Park to Saratoga early Sunday morning after he emerged from his Saturday morning breeze in good order.
“Early Voting is here and he'll be going in the Jim Dandy,” Brown said. “Jack Christopher looked great this morning and looked ready to go for the Haskell. At the end of the day, I was going to run two horses in one race and one in the other and I'd rather only run the one in the Haskell. I just didn't see the benefit of putting Early Voting in a larger field against a really fast horse and what it might do to him five weeks out from the Travers (G1, August 27 at Saratoga).”
Klaravich Stables' Early Voting won the Withers (G3) and finished second in the Wood Memorial (G2) at Aqueduct before winning the Preakness May 21 at Pimlico Race Course. He worked four furlongs Saturday in :49.25.
Jack Christopher, winner of the Champagne (G1) and the Woody Stephens (G1) Belmont Park among four victories from as many lifetime starts, went in :49.80.
Blue Grass (G1) winner Zandon, who finished third in the Kentucky Derby (G1) May 7, worked on the main track at Saratoga for the first time Saturday morning, breezing four furlongs in :48.69.
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