Algorithms working towards comeback to the races
The highly-rated three-year-old colt, Algorithms, have returned to galloping at Belmont Park after incurring an injury earlier this year under the watchful eye of trained Todd Pletcher.
Starlight Racing’s Algorithms is undefeated in three career starts, and he made a name for himself when he outrun the most potent field in 3-year-old male division drawn by the Grade 3 Holy Bull Stakes.
The Kentucky bred son of Bernardini, Algorithms was a real contender for the Grade 1 Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, but the Grade 3 Holy Bull winner missed the Grade 2 Fasig-Tipton Fountain of Youth Stakes and was off the Derby trail when X-rays confirmed
a fractured split bone in his right front leg.
It was a big blow for the connections, especially when Algorithms romped to victory in the one-mile Holy Bull Stakes and defeated the 2011 2-year-old champion, Hansen.
The Holy Bull Stakes field also attracted the likes of Silver Max, who later in his career string together six-race win streak, My Adonis and Fort Loudon, who also went on to do well.
Out of Cryptoclearance mare Ava Knowsthecode, Algorithms underwent surgery in late February, and the colt returned to basic training this month at Belmont Park, said Starlight principal Jack Wolf.
"He's at Belmont galloping and should probably have his first breeze this weekend," Wolf remarked. "The honest answer as to whether we make a race this year or not is, it depends on how the horse comes back. The way he looks and the way he's acting now,
depending on how the breezes go, I don't see any reason why something this year couldn't be planned. But my exact words to Todd this morning were, 'I've been harping on getting a race in this horse this year, but at the end of the day, you progress as you
see fit.'"
Algorithms announced his arrival after breaking his maiden at Belmont Park by a significant margin of 5 ¼ lengths followed by a 1 length victory in an Allowance Optional Claimer at Gulfstream Park going six and one-half furlongs on 16 December, 2012, covering
the distance in 1 minute and 15.51 seconds.
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