Shadwell Stable's Mohaymen (Tapit) posted his first breeze since finishing fourth in the May 7 GI Kentucky Derby with a three-furlong move in :36.40 at Greentree Training Facility in Saratoga Springs Thursday morning.
“He worked great, galloped out [four furlongs] in :49 and wouldn't have blown out a match,” said McLaughlin after watching the gray breeze over Greentree's all-weather surface. “We're on our way to working weekly leading up to his next start.”
Mohaymen is scheduled to breeze again down the road at Saratoga Race Course after the main track opens for training July 1. McLaughlin said that his trainee will likely make his next start in either the GII Jim Dandy S. at the Spa July 30 or the GI Betfair.com Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park July 31, serving as a prep for the GI Travers S. at Saratoga Aug. 27.
Purchased for $2,200,000 as a Keeneland September yearling, Mohaymen won the first five starts of his career–four of which were Grade II events. Following a win in the Feb. 27 GII Lambholm South Fountain of Youth S., he finished a dull fourth in the GI Xpressbet.com Florida Derby Apr. 2. The colt's Derby fourth-place finish represented a significant bounce back from that effort.
“Mohaymen went home [to Shadwell's farm in Kentucky] right after the Derby, just for a once over,” McLaughlin said. “He was fine–a clean bill of health. We were never going to go to the [June 11 GI] Belmont S. He's doing great and pointing for the Jim Dandy-Travers. We might look at the Haskell, we'll see, but that's the weekend we're looking at.”
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