Chester and Mary Broman's graded stakes-placed New York homebred Arctic Arrogance, with blinkers on, drilled a half-mile under Jose Lezcano in :50.47 Sunday over the Belmont dirt training track in his first breeze since a runner-up effort in the Jerome on Jan. 7 at Aqueduct.
The Frosted sophomore raced in second position throughout the one-turn mile Jerome, finishing a half-length back of West Coast-based shipper Lugan Knight.
Rice said she's looking forward to stretching Arctic Arrogance back out to nine furlongs in the $250,000 Withers (G3) on Feb. 4. The Road to the Kentucky Derby qualifier offers 20-8-6-4-2 points to the top five finishers.
“He had a good workout this morning,” Rice said. “We missed a breeze coming into the Jerome over the holiday with bad weather. I thought he was a little heavy coming into the race, so I want to make sure the same thing doesn't happen going into the Withers.”
Arctic Arrogance, who captured the one-turn mile Sleepy Hollow at Aqueduct against fellow state-breds on Oct. 30, is currently ranked 10th on the Kentucky Derby Leaderboard with eight points. He picked up four qualifying points for a runner-up effort to Dubyuhnell in the nine-furlong Remsen (G2) Dec. 3, which was contested over a sloppy and sealed Aqueduct main track.
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