Lady Eli, Flintshire Work on Belmont Turf

Sheep Pond Partners' undefeated Lady Eli, who continues her comeback from laminitis, and Juddmonte Farms' homebred Flintshire breezed on the inner turf course July 10 at Belmont Park for trainer Chad Brown.

Lady Eli, a 4-year-old Divine Park filly, worked a half-mile in :49 2/5. It was her second Belmont turf work; she worked a slower four furlongs July 3 on the same course at Belmont after a tendon issue cost her a few months of training.

"I thought she worked great," Brown said. "It was her second work back and we put her in company (with Grey Stark)."

Brown earlier indicated he plans to take Lady Eli to Saratoga Race Course this summer but hasn't picked out a race for the filly.

Flintshire, a 6-year-old Dansili horse, breezed five furlongs in 1:01 2/5. Flintshire, who won the Manhattan Stakes (gr. IT) June 11 at Belmont in his first start for Brown, will be pointed to the July 30 Bowling Green Handicap (gr. IIT) at Saratoga.

Flintshire captured the 2015 Sword Dancer Stakes (gr. IT) at Saratoga and in 2014 finished second to Main Sequence in the Breeders' Cup Turf (gr. IT) at Santa Anita Park. Brown indicated another trip to California later this year is planned.

"I'd like to keep him running out of his own stall (in New York) all the way up to the Breeders' Cup and then go out on the road," Brown said. "That's where we're leaning."