Conquest Mo Money Puts in Final Breeze for Preakness

Conquest Mo Money's odyssey across the country via truck and trailer will continue May 13.

 

Judge Lanier Racing's son of Uncle Mo is bound for the Preakness Stakes (G1) after he put in his last work in for the second leg of the Triple Crown at Prairie Meadows May 12.

Conquest Mo Money covered a half-mile in :48 2/5 Friday under regular jockey Jorge Carreno, his third breeze at the Iowa track after a second-place run behind Classic Empire in the Arkansas Derby (G1).

"He worked good," said trainer Miguel Hernandez. "He's been training normally, going to the track every day (since the Arkansas Derby)."

The colt who emerged on the Triple Crown trail at his Sunland Park base in New Mexico, with a pair of stakes wins and a second-place run in the Sunland Derby (G3), has since spent time stabled at Oaklawn Park for the Arkansas Derby, in Oklahoma, and now in Altoona, Iowa, where Hernandez has moved his string for the spring.

"In the beginning he wasn't getting a hold of the track (at Prairie Meadows), because it's different than Sunland, but he's going good right now," Hernandez said. "Sunland Park is like dirt and Prairie Meadows is like sand—loose and cuppy. But now that he's used to it, we hope it's like Pimlico."

Back in the trailer again, Conquest Mo Money will head east for Pimlico Race Course Saturday, but will spend the night at a farm in Kentucky before departing for Maryland. For Hernandez, a former jockey based in the Southwest, the journey is all new. His prior experience at Prairie Meadows was one mount back in 2009.

"Sunland Park, Oaklawn, here—he's taking us everywhere," Hernandez said.