Toast Travels Set to Continue

TOAST TRAVELS SET TO CONTINUE 
Trainer Jamie Osborne was already busy planning the racing future of GI Breeders’ Cup Classic runner-up Toast of New York (Thewayyouare) yesterday the day after the British-based 3-year-old missed out on America’s richest prize by a nose. 

Osborne was upbeat yesterday, telling Racing Post, “He has the potential to be one of the highest-earning horses in the world. He’s never going to run for less than a million and I can’t see him running in England. We’ll choose our targets and if he runs three or four times a year for the next two years and every time he runs for a few million in prize money, that would do.” 

Michael Buckley’s colorbearer has traveled far and wide this year, kicking off his sophomore campaign with a victory in the G2 UAE Derby on the Dubai World Cup undercard Mar. 29. He resurfaced in the GI Belmont Derby July 5 but could finish no better than sixth. It was discovered thereafter he had picked up a virus, and the bay showed his true colors next out when finishing second to Shared Belief (Candy Ride) in the GI Pacific Classic Aug. 25 after a hard-luck trip. Osborne’s primary targets for next season are the G1 Dubai World Cup and the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Keeneland. 

“I have been ruing the decision of Meydan to put the dirt down there over the last few months, thinking if only we could go back to Tapeta, as he’d be nearly one of the favorites for the World Cup,” Osborne told the trade daily. “But he looked like a horse yesterday who had been running on dirt all his life. He looked so at ease on it. It did suit his style. It opens up all sorts of things and if we’re lucky enough to still have him and he stays sound he could potentially top and tail the next two years in Meydan and in a Breeders’ Cup Classic.”