Trainer Chad Brown is considering a somewhat unusual move with the promising 2-year-old Zandon, reports the Daily Racing Form. Winner of a Belmont Park maiden special weight over six furlongs on Oct. 9, the son of Upstart could next be entered in the G2 Remsen over 1 1/8 miles this Saturday at Aqueduct.
The Remsen offers the winner 10 points on the Road to the Kentucky Derby.
It would be an abnormal move for Brown, who typically utilizes a slower progression with his charges. Zandon had been targeted for the Nov. 7 Nashua, but a mild illness kept him out of that race.
Brown told DRF Zandon reminds him of his 2017 Preakness winner Cloud Computing, who won sprinting on debut then finished second at 1 1/16 miles in the Gotham in his second start.
“He looks like him,” Brown said. “He's a big, good-looking black horse that was able to win sprinting and he's not a sprinter.”
Zandon, out of the Creative Cause mare Memories Prevail, was a $170,000 yearling at the Keeneland September sale. Purchased by Mike Ryan on behalf of owner Jeff Drown, the colt is from the family of top Maryland-bred Hello Beautiful.
Read more at the Daily Racing Form.
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