Mohaymen Back to Work in New York

Shadwell Stable's multiple grade II winner Mohaymen returned to the worktab June 23 with a three-furlong breeze at the Greentree Training Center adjacent to Saratoga Race Course.

Trained by Kiaran McLaughlin, the 3-year-old Tapit   colt was clocked in :36 2/5 over the all-weather surface in his first timed breeze since finishing fourth in the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I).

"He worked great, galloped out in :49 and wouldn't have blown out a match," McLaughlin said. "We're on our way to working weekly leading up to his next start."

Mohaymen's next work is expected to be over Saratoga's main track, which is scheduled to open for training July 1.

McLaughlin is looking at either the $600,000 Jim Dandy (gr. II) July 30 at Saratoga or the $1 million Haskell Invitational (gr. I) July 31 at Monmouth Park for Mohaymen's comeback race.

The 1 1/8-mile Jim Dandy is Saratoga's traditional hometown prep for the $1.25 million Travers Stakes (gr. I) Aug. 27, which the connections are targeting as Mohaymen's primary summer goal.

Mohaymen won his first five career starts, capping his 2-year-old season with victories in the Nashua and Remsen (both gr. II) at Aqueduct Racetrack. He opened 2016 with triumphs in the Holy Bull and Fountain of Youth (both gr. II) at Gulfstream Park before running fourth in a showdown with eventual Kentucky Derby winner Nyquist in the Florida Derby (gr. I) April 2.

Following the Kentucky Derby, Mohaymen got some time off at Shadwell's farm in Kentucky before joining McLaughlin's upstate string at Greentree.

"Mohaymen went home right after the Derby, just for a once over. He was fine--a clean bill of health," McLaughlin said. "We were never going to go to the Belmont (gr. I). He's doing great and pointing for the Jim Dandy (and) Travers. We might look at the Haskell. We'll see, but that's the weekend we're looking at."