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Malathaat Works for CCA Oaks

Shadwell Stable's undefeated Malathaat (Curlin), last seen winning the GI Kentucky Oaks Apr. 30, turned in a four-furlong work in :49.96 (22/36) over the dirt training track at Belmont Park Sunday ahead of an expected tilt at the July 24 GI Coaching Club American Oaks.

“She went great. I'm really pleased with the way she's doing,” said trainer Todd Pletcher. “She worked well with a big, strong gallop out. We'll probably have one breeze at Saratoga and she'll be ready to go.”

Also working from the Pletcher barn was WinStar Farm's Country Grammer (Tonalist), last-out winner of the GI Hollywood Gold Cup, who breezed a half-mile in :49.22 (27/98) in company with GIII Peter Pan S. winner Promise Keeper (Constitution) on the dirt training track Sunday.

Country Grammer is working towards a start in the Aug. 7 GI Whitney S., which offers a “Win and You're In” berth to the GI Breeders' Cup Classic.

“He's an honest workhorse, but the more we're around him it seems he's really good at just clicking off those :12s,” said Pletcher. “We'll put a couple more good works into him and have him ready for the Whitney.”

Pletcher said Woodford Thoroughbreds, WinStar Farm and Rock Ridge Racing's Promise Keeper, most recently fourth in the June 26 GIII Ohio Derby, will target either the July 31 GII Jim Dandy S. or the Aug. 7 GIII West Virginia Derby at Mountaineer.

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Brown Runners Tune Up for Diana

A pair of runners from the barn of trainer Chad Brown tuned up for expected starts in the July 17 GI Diana S. with works over the inner turf course at Belmont Park Sunday morning. Lemista (Ire) (Raven's Pass) went five furlongs in a bullet 1:01.80 (1/10) outside of stablemate Pocket Square (GB) (Night of Thunder {Ire}), who completed the drill in 1:01.89 (3/10).

Peter Brant's Lemista, a two-time group winner in Ireland last year, opened her stateside campaign with a late-closing runner-up effort in the GIII Beaugay S. last time out May 8.

Pocket Square, a Juddmonte homebred, was a group winner in France in 2019. After winning a Keeneland allowance in her U.S. bow in April, the 4-year-old is coming off a fifth-place effort in the June 5 GI Just a Game S.

“They both worked well with one another and are going to the Diana,” Brown said. “Lemista has relished the time in between her races. With Pocket Square, I'm drawing a line through the Just a Game. She was lined up so well going into that race and there were things I was hopeful she would be able to overcome, but it didn't quite work out.”

Brown has won the Diana six times, including the past five editions with talented turf distaffers Dacita (2016), Lady Eli (2017), Sistercharlie (2018-19) and Rushing Fall (2020).

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Far From Over Dies

Graded stakes winner Far From Over (Blame–Alchemist, by A. P. Indy) died Sunday after suffering a seizure Saturday night. The 9-year-old had been standing at Dr. William Gray's Gray Farms near Cottonwood, California.

A $550,000 purchase at the 2013 Keeneland September sale, Far From Over captured the 2015 GIII Withers S. in his second lifetime outing. Racing for the partnership of Black Rock Thoroughbreds, Madaket Stables and James Covello and trainer Todd Pletcher, he won three of six starts and earned $255,600.

Far From Over stood most of three seasons at stud for a partnership that included Steve Marshall's Fountain of Youth Breeding LLC, Burke Edwards, and Justin Ferrero. His oldest progeny are yearlings of 2021, some of which are slated to be sold at Fasig-Tipton's July sale Tuesday in Kentucky. The sale includes a dispersal of Marshall's stock.

“Of all the horses I've owned, Far From Over had as good a physical as we've ever seen, and that includes Violence,” said Marshall. “It's a great loss. We'll never know how good a sire he would have been.”

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Stars and Stripes Card Generates $21.5-Million Handle

The 11-race Stars and Stripes Day card at Belmont Park Saturday generated $21,535,076 in all-sources handle. The card featured the $1-million GI Belmont Derby and the $700,000 GI Belmont Oaks. The Derby and Oaks kicked off the New York Racing Association's Turf Triple series which will continue in the males division with the Aug. 7 $1-million GI Saratoga Derby Invitational and on the distaff side with the Aug. 8 Saratoga Oaks.

Saturday's Belmont card, which also included the GIII Victory Ride S., attracted an on-track crowd of 3,574 and on-track handle totaled $1,923,650.

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