Thomas Amoss still has hope for Shared Property going into the Louisiana Derby
Thomas Amoss trained 3-year-old gelding, Shared Property, was expected to do well in his sophomore season, but maybe his last start of 2011 season in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Futurity got him off track a little, and since then the gelded son of Scat Daddy has
struggled to show his good form up till now, but Amoss still has big plans for Shared Property and the trainer’s sheer belief in the gelding could get him through the bad patch in time ahead of the ultimate spring/summer goal, the Grade 1 Kentucky Derby at
Churchill Downs at about 1 ¼ miles on 5 May, 2012.
He finished sixth in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Futurity, and that race kind of defines the pre and post for Shared Property, because prior to the race the gelding was undefeated. Broke his maiden special weight race at first asking at about 6 furlongs on 30
July, 2011, and then went on to become a graded stakes winner in the Grade 3 Arlington-Washington Futurity at Arlington Park on 10 September, 2011.
It was down hill in the Breeders’ Futurity and after that. The new campaign didn’t go as planned, as the Kentucky bred out of mare Yoursmineours by Belong To Me, fell away a little in the Grade 3 Lecomte Stakes to winner, Mr. Bowling at Fair Grounds Race
Course.
He completely fell away and lost the plot in the Grade 2 Risen Star Stakes at about 1 1/16 miles, where he finished a dismal fifth to the rampant El Padrino, who himself left it late to nose out, Mark Valeski in the stretch to win at Fair Grounds on 25 February,
2012.
What’s gone is gone, and Jerry Namy owned, Shared Property has one more race to get his lost form back. “As bad a job as I did training this horse up to the Risen Star, I think now I’ve got him back to where he was,” said Amoss of the colt.
He is installed as the 10 to 1 choice for the Grade 2 Louisiana Derby, where he will be up against familiar runners, which could help him out a little ahead of the Kentucky Derby.
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