NEWS
Teuflesberg to make turf debut on Saturday
Posted: Thursday, August 02, 2007 5:38 PM
TEUFLESBURG
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by Phil Janack
A graded stakes winner on dirt, Teuflesberg will make his grass debut in Saturday's third race at Saratoga Race Course.
Trained by Jamie Sanders, Teuflesberg drew post five in a field of ten for the $80,000 Glow Stakes, an overnight stakes for three-year-olds who have not won an open sweepstakes on the turf this year.
Seventeenth in the Kentucky Derby (G1) on May 5, Teuflesberg, ridden by Edgar Prado, will carry 120 pounds over one mile on the inner turf course.
In his previous start, Teuflesberg ran second by one length in the Carry Back Stakes (G2) on July 7 at Calder Race Course, and Sanders had planned to train the Johannesburg colt up to the seven-furlong King's Bishop Stakes (G1) here on August 25.
"He's just doing so well and feeling so good that we wanted to find something to keep him on the level," Sanders said Thursday. "He's just doing super. We've always wanted to try him on the grass, anyway, because he's run so good on Polytrack."
In his previous two Polytrack starts, both at Keeneland, Teuflesberg earned his first career win in October and ran fourth, beaten only a neck, in the Toyota Blue Grass (G1) on April 14.
Phil Janack is a New York-based Thoroughbred Times correspondent
