Turf Sprint Exacta Doing Well Sunday

The GI Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint exacta of Mongolian Saturday (Any Given Saturday) and Lady Shipman (Midshipman) look well Sunday morning, according to their respective connections.

“He will stay in training,” said trainer Enebish Ganbat. “The people in Hong Kong have sent me an invitation to the big $2 million turf race there December 13 [the Hong Kong Sprint]. We’ll see how the horse is feeling. If he is good, we can go out there.”

Kathleen O’Connell, trainer of ‘TDN Rising Star’ Lady Shipman, said the filly will get some time off before her 2016 campaign.

“She ran a really, really brilliant race I thought, on a turf that doesn’t necessarily favor her,” O’Connell said. “She seems to like the very firm turf. For a 3-year-old running against older boys, I thought it was a valiant effort. And she almost pulled it off. She had a lot of things going against her. She seemed to come out of the race great. She’s just been a pleasure to have. There’s nothing on the horizon for her so it’s a good time to give her a break. I’ve always said baseball players don’t play baseball all year, football players don’t play football all year, but these horses continually go. So we try to time it with a little break. She’ll get to be a horse–like going to summer camp.”