Pletcher Will Have Four in Jockey Club Gold Cup
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Todd Pletcher at Saratoga Race Course
Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher is going to be a busy man Sept. 3, the final Saturday of the 40-day meet at Saratoga Race Course.
He is expected to saddle four horses in the $1.25 million Jockey Club Gold Cup (G1): Dynamic One , owned by Repole Stable, Phipps Stable and St. Elias Stable; Keepmeinmind, owned by Cypress Creek Equine, Arnold Bennewith and Spendthrift Farm; Americanrevolution , owned by China Horse Club and WinStar Farm and Untreated , owned by Team Valor International.
Dynamic One, who won the Suburban Stakes (G2) at Belmont Park in his last start, worked Aug. 12 in company with Malathaat , last year's Eclipse Award winner for 3-year-old filly. They had a bullet five-furlong breeze in 1:01.12. Pletcher said it was one of the better works he has seen from Dynamic One.
As for his top older horses, Pletcher is still sorting out where Life Is Good , winner of the Whitney Stakes (G1) Aug 6, will go as well as Happy Saver, the Whitney runner-up. The two races he has in mind are the Woodward Stakes (G1) at Belmont at Aqueduct Oct. 1 and the Lukas Classic Stakes (G3) at Churchill Downs on the same day.
"Happy Saver will go wherever Life Is Good does not go," Pletcher said.