Richard Dutrow is planning well for 2012 as he trains Redeemed and Trickmeister for the Donn Handicap
The Virginia bred 3-year-old colt, Redeemed, has had a pretty successful 2011 season, where he went on to land five races out of 7 starts this year and to runner up positions which means he didn’t worse than second the entire season.
At the back end of the season, Richard Dutrow Jr. trained Redeemed, found some real form and landed back to back stakes races against solid lineups. He is exiting a victory in the Grade 3 Discovery Handicap at Aqueduct race course on 19 November, 2011, under
jockey E Prado.
Over a distance of 1 1/8 miles, Redeemed stalked a modest pace in the early stages of the race and drew clear in the stretch to land the Discovery Handicap by defeating Socialsaul in second and Raison d’Etat in third, while covered the 1 1/8 mile distance
in 1 minute and 49.22 seconds.
Prior to the Discovery Handicap, Redeemed was coming off a win in the Oklahoma Derby at Remington Park where he defeated Alternation after a tough duel and Prayer for Relief in third.
The race was held at Remington Park over a distance of 1 1/8 miles on dirt on 16 October, 2011.
The son of Include, out of mare Early Mass by Pleasant Tap, Redeemed working regularly for his 2012 debut race, and he is pointed toward the Grade 1 Donn Handicap on 11 February, 2011, at Gulfstream Park over a distance of 1 1/8 miles.
His stable mate, Trickmeister, is also pointed toward the Donn Handicap. “That’s the race I’m planning for right now with both of them,” Dutrow said. “I don’t like to run them against each other but I may not have much choice.”
Both stable mates will be up against the likes of Flat Out, the Grade 1 Preakness Stakes winner heavy weight, Shackleford and the son of the Northern Afleet, Where’s Sterling.
Dutrow’s other ace but prone to injury, Boys at Tosconova, is doing very well in his comeback races, mostly allowance/optional claimers. He has come out good after his win under Ramon Dominguez in an allowance race.
“He won pretty easy and looked better to me this time than in his previous win,” said Dutrow. “Ramon wasn’t asking for his belly at the eighth pole – he had horse.”
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