Good Magic, Monomoy Girl Work at Saratoga

Reigning juvenile champion Good Magic led a busy Aug. 11 worktab at Saratoga Race Course as he turned in his first breeze since winning the betfair.com Haskell Invitational Stakes (G1) in preparation for the $1.25 million Runhappy Travers Stakes (G1) Aug. 25 at Saratoga.

Owned by e Five Racing Thoroughbreds and Stonestreet Stable, the multiple graded stakes winner worked four furlongs solo, covering the distance in 48.09 seconds on the main track for trainer Chad Brown.

"He moved really well," Brown said. "I thought it was an outstanding work. He looked super and I'm very happy with him."

The July 29 Haskell was Good Magic's first win since taking the grade 2 Toyota Blue Grass Stakes by 1 1/2 lengths in April. He was second in the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve (G1) and fourth in the Preakness Stakes (G1) behind Triple Crown winner Justifythis spring. 

Last year, the chestnut Curlin  colt broke his maiden with a 4 1/2-length victory in the Sentient Jet Breeders' Cup Juvenile (G1) at Del Mar.

"We gave him a little breather following the Preakness, and he's come back and really done well," Brown said. "He came out of the Haskell in great shape."

Meanwhile, multiple grade 1-winning 3-year-old filly Monomoy Girl breezed four furlongs in 49.88 seconds on Saratoga's main track, her first major training since winning her fourth straight grade 1 in the Coaching Club American Oaks July 22. The Tapizar  filly is working toward a start in the $1 million Cotillion (G1) Sept. 22 at Parx Racing.

With regular jockey Florent Geroux aboard, Michael Dubb, Monomoy Stables, The Elkstone Group, and Bethlehem Stables' Monomoy Girl breezed in company with allowance winner Purely Lucky. Trainer Brad Cox said he was impressed with Monomoy's Girl's work in her first breeze since besting Midnight Bisou to win the Coaching Club American Oaks in her Spa debut.

"She breezed very well, it was just a little maintenance breeze in company. We weren't looking to do a whole lot," Cox said. "We're just trying to keep her on schedule, she usually works Saturdays or Sundays. That was the plan, just get a nice, easy half-mile. She galloped out 1:03 and change. That's all we were looking for. She looks fantastic. She was letting us know the last couple of days, the way she's been galloping, that it's been three weeks since she's run and she was looking to do something."