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Animal Kingdom gets ready for Gulfstream with breeze
Posted: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 4:18 PM
ANIMAL KINGDOM WINS KENTUCKY DERBY
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Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (G1) winner Animal Kingdom continued preparations for his four-year-old debut with a five-furlong move on Wednesday at Palm Meadows Training Center.
Ridden by David Nava, the champion three-year-old male completed five furlongs on the turf course in :59.80, the fastest of eight breezes at the distance.
“That was a serious move,” trainer Graham Motion told Daily Racing Form. “He’s been going halves in :50 and change. He was in need of a serious work; he got a serious work today. He had to ask him to do it.”
Animal Kingdom is one of 271 horses nominated to the Emirates Airline Dubai World Cup (UAE-G1) on March 31, which owner Team Valor International already has established as a goal. He is expected to make his seasonal debut on February 11 in the Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap (G1).
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Posted by: Al, San Jose, CA on January 26, 2012 at 12:02 AM
Hope Animal Kingdom and Royal Delta both run really well in whatever prep races in America their connections choose to run them in prior to heading to Dubai. I think both of them are legit contenders for the Dubai World Cup. If they both don't up getting horrible post position draws? Difficult to overcome a wide PP draw at Meydan on the tapeta main track.
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