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Flightline
Monday’s training action across the United States featured pair of major workouts for the June 11 Belmont Stakes undercard: Flightline, targeting the Grade 1 Metropolitan Handicap, and champion Letruska, targeting the G1 Ogden Phipps, both breezed a bullet five furlongs in 59.40 seconds, though at different racetracks.
Trainer John Sadler told the Daily Racing Form that he was pleased with the Santa Anita Park work from Flightline, the winner of December’s G1 Malibu Stakes.
“He’s ready to run next week,” Sadler told DRF. “That was beautiful, really nice.”
The lightly-raced 4-year-old son of Tapit will be making fourth lifetime start and his 2022 debut in the Met Mile.
Meanwhile, Letruska’s bullet beneath the Twin Spires at Churchill Downs was just her second work since winning the G1 Apple Blossom at Oaklawn Park. The champion mare will be trying to repeat in the Ogden Phipps for trainer Fausto Gutierrez.
“She is a little different from last year,” Gutierrez told DRF after the breeze. “Her mind is better. We are trying to keep her fresh and she has responded very good.”
Read more at the Daily Racing Form here and here.
