There's a flight from New Mexico to Kentucky on Sunday, April 9. Trainer Joel Marr told the Daily Racing Form on Tuesday that he and owner/breeder Frank Sumpter have yet to decide whether their Sunland Derby upsetter Wild On Ice will be on that flight.
“He's doing well,” Marr told DRF. “We're planning on a little breeze on Friday. We're going to determine what's going on after that. We have a possible flight on Sunday, so we'll just see how it goes and how he comes back.”
The son of Tapizar won the G3 Sunland Derby by 1 1/4 lengths at odds of 35-1, earning 50 points on the Road to the Kentucky Derby. That total places Wild On Ice tenth on the Kentucky Derby leaderboard, and a late nomination fee of $6,000 was paid by the March 27 deadline to make Wild On Ice eligible for the Triple Crown.
Wild On Ice is out of the winning Grand Slam mare Slamitagain, from the family of Florida Derby winner Vicar.
That Sunday flight will have Sunland Park Oaks winner Flying Connection on board. Trained by Todd Fincher, the Nyquist filly has won four of her seven lifetime starts for earnings of $294,700.
Read more at the Daily Racing Form.
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