Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile winner Cody's Wish will not target the Pegasus World Cup, Saudi Cup, or Dubai World Cup in 2023, reports the Thoroughbred Racing Commentary. The 2022 Secretariat Vox Populi Award winner captured the hearts of the racing world for his relationship with young Cody Dorman and his dramatic victory at Keeneland in November, but it could be several months before he's seen on the racetrack again.
Godolphin's soon-to-be 5-year-old son of Curlin will be aimed at the premier one-mile races in the United States: the G1 Met Mile and a repeat in the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile.
“We know he is a specialist seven-furlong, one-mile, one-turn horse – I know at Keeneland he did the two turns – but we feel that's the best configuration of a racetrack for him and we can get more of those in America,” Michael Banahan, Godolphin USA's director of bloodstock, told TRC. “We are working back from the Breeders' Cup at Santa Anita next year to try and repeat what he did already.”
Prior to the Met Mile, the Bill Mott-trained Cody's Wish could target the seven-furlong Churchill Downs Stakes (G1) on Kentucky Derby weekend.
In the meantime, Cody's Wish is taking a “working break” in Florida.
Read more at the Thoroughbred Racing Commentary.
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