Life Is Good Has Final Tune-up for Whitney

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Photo: Skip Dickstein
Life Is Good works July 30 at Saratoga Race Course

Life continues to be good at trainer Todd Pletcher's barn.

As well it should. When you have a horse named Life Is Good , the sun is always out.

The 4-year-old colt, owned by WinStar Farm and the China Horse Club, had his final work before the Aug. 6 $1 million Whitney Stakes (G1). With regular exercise rider Amelia Green on board, Life Is Good went four furlongs in :48.25 July 30 on the main track at Saratoga Race Course.

"Another impressive move," Pletcher said. "I thought he seemed to be skipping over the ground, a super gallop out."

Pletcher said he has yet to see the son of Into Mischief   have a bad day since he came to his barn last year. 

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"It's pretty rare," he said. "He loves what he does and goes out there with enthusiasm every day. We just went a half because we knew he would gallop out strongly, and I told Amelia on the radio to start easing him up on the turn. He was still going; she had to reach up and grab him at the half-mile pole to make him pull up."

Pletcher also worked Whitney possibles Happy Saver , owned by Wertheimer and Frere, and WinStar Farm's and China Horse Club's Americanrevolution . That duo worked in company with Green piloting Americanrevolution and Humberto Zamora aboard Happy Saver. Both were timed in :49.75 for four furlongs.

Pletcher said Happy Saver, a 5-year-old son of Super Saver  , is headed to the Whitney. Americanrevolution could be going that way as well, but Pletcher said he will talk to WinStar president, CEO, and racing manager Elliott Walden before a final decision is made.

Americanrevolution, a 4-year-old New York-bred son of Constitution  , would be pointed to the Jockey Club Gold Cup (G1) at Saratoga Sept. 3 if he doesn't run in the Whitney.

"They both went exactly as I expected them to," Pletcher said. "They are not the type of horses that breeze the way Life Is Good does, but they are both in good form."

Pletcher also worked Whisper Hill Farm's Charge It , his contender for the Runhappy Travers (G1) Aug. 27. In his first work since winning the Dwyer Stakes (G3) at Belmont Park July 2 by 23 lengths, the son of Tapit   went four furlongs in :49.06.