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Midnight Disguise back to work
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Midnight Disguise, a threetime stakes winner on this circuit earlier this year, returned to the work tab Thursday at Belmont Park, breezing a half-mile in 50.71 seconds as she begins preparation for a 4-yearold campaign in 2019.
Midnight Disguise, a daughter of Midnight Lute, won the Busher and Busanda stakes at Aqueduct during the winter and seemed on her way to the Kentucky Oaks before she finished fourth in the Gazelle in April. After she defeated New York-breds in the Bouwerie Stakes at Belmont on May 28, Midnight Disguise was sidelined with a soft tissue injury to her left foreleg, according to trainer Linda Rice.
“We sent her to WinStar and gave her plenty of time off,” said Rice, who trains Midnight Disguise for owners-breeders William Wilmot and Joan Taylor.
Midnight Disguise was a large filly, but Rice said “she’s much bigger and stronger” than she was earlier in the year.
Rice said that if all goes well Midnight Disguise could return to the races in the $100,000 Biogio’s Rose Stakes, a one-turn mile race for New York-breds on Feb. 10.
Skyler’s Scramjet near return
Skyler’s Scramjet, a threetime winner at Aqueduct last winter and spring, including a 1 1/2-length win in the Grade 3 Tom Fool Handicap last March, is eying a return to the races in the $100,000 Gravesend Stakes here on Dec. 23.
Skyler’s Scramjet has not run since finishing sixth of eight in the Mr. Prospector Stakes at Monmouth Park in June.
“His last start at Monmouth he didn’t ship well, got real light on me,” trainer Michelle Nevin said. “He’s a nervous horse to train and he was telling me he needed a break.”
Skyler’s Scramjet, a 4-year-old gelding by Creative Cause, shows seven works at Aqueduct since Nov. 1 including a five-furlong move in 1:02.02 on Monday.
“He’s been breezing right along,” Nevin said. “He really likes Aqueduct.”
Others under consideration for the Gravesend include Always Sunshine, Heartwood, Life in Shambles, Midtowncharly brown, Recruiting Ready, and Runaway Lute.
Do Share back in NY
Do Share won last year’s Gravesend for Linda Rice as part of a 7-for-10 campaign in 2017. He is back in New York with new connections and on Thursday worked five furlongs in 1:01 over Belmont Park’s training track.
Do Share, whose owner Anthony Miuccio died in July 2017, went through the auction ring at the Fasig-Tipton July selected horses of racing age sale and was purchased for $40,000 by Three Diamonds Farm. He was turned over to trainer Mike Maker.
The horse showed a series of bullet workouts at Turfway Park before being shipped to New York, where he had been pointing to an allowance race. Do Share suffered from a bruised foot that forced him to miss a work before his Thursday breeze.
“They said he worked super,” Maker said by phone Thursday.
Maker did not nominate Do Share to the Gravesend, but hopes to get him into a stakes during the Aqueduct meet.
Do Share finished second to Skyler’s Scramjet in the Tom Fool before finishing eighth of 11 in the Grade 1 Carter.
◗ Kadens Courage, an 11 1/4length maiden winner, and Kosciuszko, third in the Notebook Stakes, figure to vie for favoritism in a 12-horse field entered Thursday for Sunday’s $150,000 Great White Way division of the New York Stallion Stakes Series at six furlongs.