Multiple Grade I stakes-winner Cavorting (Bernardini), who breezed Tuesday morning, will have one more work before running the Grade I Personal Ensign S. Aug. 27, trainer Kiaran McLaughlin said Thursday.
Cavorting, who captured the GI Ogden Phipps S. in her last start June 11, covered four furlongs over Saratoga's main track in 47.47, the third fastest of 45 workers at the distance Tuesday.
The 1 1/8-mile Personal Ensign will mark Cavorting's first start around two turns. She won both the 1 1/16-mile Ogden Phipps and the one-mile Ruffian around one turn at Belmont.
Cavorting is undefeated at Saratoga, where she won the Grade 2 Adirondack as a 2-year-old in 2014 and last year's Grade I Longines Test and Grade II Prioress.
“She's won twice long now, but we still have to try the two turns,” McLaughlin told the NYRA notes team Thursday morning. “We're happy with going longer. I give a lot of credit to Javier [Castellano] because when he rode her in the first race going long [the Ruffian], he told me, 'I'm going to take her back and make a run.' I said, 'Okay, good luck.' And he did it. Once she learned to settle and finish – she was always bred to go a mile or more being by Bernardini – it has been great. Javier helped us a lot, and then he had to take off of her in the [Phipps] and Florent [Geroux] did a great job, and now Javier is back on Cavorting for the Personal Ensign.”
McLaughlin also reported that Mohaymen (Tapit), who finished fourth as the favorite in his last start in the Grade II Jim Dandy S. July 31, has gained weight since that race and is on course for the GI Travers S. Aug. 27.
“We weighed Mohaymen this morning and he has put on 20 pounds since the Jim Dandy,” McLaughlin said. “We've always struggled to put weight on him, so we're really happy that he is putting weight on. We're going to train toward the Travers.”
McLaughlin said Mohaymen will have one work, eight to 10 days out, before the Travers.
Barn star Frosted (Tapit) has resumed training on the Greentree training track and McLaughlin said the 4-year-old came out of his Aug. 6 GI Whitney S. win in terrific shape.
Frosted could be trained up to the GI Breeders' Cup Classic Nov. 5 at Santa Anita, or have a prep before that year-end goal. McLaughlin mentioned New York's GI Woodward S. or GI Jockey Club Gold Cup as possibilities, as well as Santa Anita's local prep for the Classic, the GI Awesome Again S. Oct. 1.
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