Untapable Works at Oaklawn Park

Winchell Thoroughbreds' champion Untapable moved closer to her 5-year-old debut by working five furlongs in 1:00 4/5 over a sloppy surface the morning of March 1 at Oaklawn Park.

The grade I-winning daughter of Tapit   is targeting the $350,000 Azeri Stakes (gr. II) March 19 at Oaklawn, a race in which she finished second last year before winning the Apple Blossom Handicap (gr. I). The Azeri is the final major local prep for the $600,000 Apple Blossom, slated for April 15 this season.

The five-furlong move was Untapable's first breeze at Oaklawn this season after arriving from her winter base of Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots. She has not run since a second-place finish in the Oct. 4 Juddmonte Spinster Stakes (gr. I), after which she missed a Breeders' Cup Distaff (gr. I) defense because of a spiked temperature.

Six-time Oaklawn training champion Steve Asmussen has Untapable on a regular work pattern; the bay mare has been breezing every six days the last month.

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Other horses pointing for the Azeri include Call Pat, High Dollar Woman, Theogony, and Kiss Moon. Call Pat won Oaklawn's $100,000 Bayakoa Stakes (gr. III) in her last start Feb. 14.

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Also working at Oaklawn was Cosmic Evolution, who went six furlongs in 1:12 4/5 under Hall of Fame jockey Calvin Borel March 2. The Lon Wiggins trainee is prepping for her two-turn debut in the $200,000 Honeybee Stakes (gr. III) March 12, the final major local prep for the $400,000 Fantasy Stakes (gr. III) April 9. Wiggins said Cosmic Evolution will have a slow three-furlong or half-mile breeze next week in advance of the Honeybee.

Argentina Horse of the Year Idolo Porteno moved closer to his American debut by working six furlongs in 1:12 1/5 Wednesday morning for trainer Ignacio Correas, and Girl Power—a 3-year-old full sister to multiple stakes winner Now I Know—recorded a half-mile bullet from the gate (:47 2/5) March 1. Trainer Don Von Hemel said she will make her career debut March 6 at Oaklawn.

Yet to make an appearance on the Oaklawn tab since his seventh-place finish in the Feb. 15 Southwest Stakes (gr. III) is Discreetness. Trainer Jinks Fires planned to work the multiple stakes winner the morning of March 2 at the Arkansas oval, but called an audible after the track was sealed because of rain March 1. The surface was rated good for workouts March 2.

Fires is pointing Discreetness for the $900,000 Rebel Stakes (gr. II) March 19, the final major local prep for the $1 million Arkansas Derby (gr. I) April 16. The trainer said he will monitor track conditions before deciding when to breeze Discreetness.

"If worse comes to worse, I'll see if they'll let me work him between races," Fires said.

Discreetness, who trained after the renovation break Wednesday morning, won the $150,000 Smarty Jones Stakes Jan. 18 at Oaklawn in his 3-year-old debut. His closed 2015 with a victory in the $250,000 Springboard Mile Dec. 13 at Remington Park.