Believe You Can post a five furlong drill ahead of the Kentucky Oaks
The Grade 1, $1 million Kentucky Oaks bound, Believe You Can, showed that she can do some serious damage to the hopes of other Kentucky Oaks bound fillies and mares, when she fired a bullet five furlong workout over the Churchill Downs fast dirt track on
22 April, 2012, and covered the distance in 59 seconds flat.
Brereton Jones homebred 3-year-old filly is exiting a sensational victory in the Grade 2 Fair Grounds Oaks, where she defeated the likes of, Summer Applause in second and Disposablepleasure at about 1 1/16 miles at Fair Grounds Race Course on 31 March, 2012,
with the winning time of 1 minute and 43.94 seconds.
Larry Jones trained filly worked in company with an allowance winning filly, Young and Lovely, and Believe You Can started her work staying 2 lengths behind her work mate.
The daughter of Proud Citizen moved on the outside and finished two lengths ahead of the Young and Lovely with the fractions of 12 1/5 seconds, 23 4/5 seconds for the quarter mile, 35 1/5 seconds, and 47 1/5 seconds for the half mile as she galloped out
six furlongs in 1 minute and 13 2/5 seconds.
“She rated very kindly,” said Napravnik. She bursts off when she is asked.” Jockey Rosie Napravnik will be racing for the first time at Churchill Downs after he suffered a ninth place finish in the last year’s Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs over, Pants
On Fire.
Out of mare El Fasto by El Prado, Believe You Can recorded fastest five eighth time out of 31 workers on the day, as rider Larry Melancon was aboard Young and Lovely, finished the distance in 59 4/5 seconds.
Napravnik has said that she will return to Churchill Downs to ride Believe You Can in the Kentucky Oaks, as the jockey right now is servicing in New York at the time being.
“When you work here, you wonder how they will handle the racetrack and both of them did in their works today,” Jones said, referring to the works of both Believe You Can and Mark Valeski. “I picked both of them up and neither of them was breathing excessively.”
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