Trinniberg will run in the Preakness Stakes if Bodemeister doesn’t
The 3-year-old colt, Trinniberg came out of the Kentucky Derby in fine condition after his big effort to prompt Bodemeister to run as fast as he did in the opening stages of the race that impressed owner Shivananda Parbhoo so much that he decided to enter the Preakness Stakes, if Bodemeister doesn’t run at Pimlico on 19 May, 2012.
“If Bodemeister is going to the Preakness, I’m not going to go,” Parbhoo said by phone Tuesday from Florida. If he’s not going, I’ll go to the Preakness.”
On 7 May, Trinniberg returned to Calder from Kentucky Derby and looked great according to Parbhoo, as he walked the shed next morning.
“He’s feeling that good,” said Parbhoo, who planned to return Trinniberg to the track on Wednesday. “This morning we had to put the lipshank on him. He’s very aggressive.”
Parbhoo went to say that if it wasn’t for Trinniberg, Bodemeister would have gone on to win the Derby, but Trinniberg ran the colt down and did I’ll Have Another a big favour by prompting the Bob Baffert trained colt to post fractions that are among the five fastest in the Kentucky Derby history.
Bodemeister, who was trying to keep Trinniberg at bay from assuming the lead, carved out blistering fractions, as he downed the opening quarter mile in 22.32 seconds, half mile in 45.39 seconds and completed the six furlong distance in 1 minute and 9.80 seconds.
“I went into the race not to hurt anybody like that,” Parbhoo said. “I didn’t think we’d go that fast; I thought 47 [seconds] for the half and maybe 1:11 or 1:12” for six furlongs.
Trinniberg couldn’t keep it up with Bodemeister, as he fell away in the final quarter mile, and faded away to finish 31 ½ lengths off the winner, I’ll Have Another, in seventeenth position.
Now, concentrating on the Preakness Stakes, Parbhoo said that he looked good in the 1 ¼ mile Derby race, and with 1 3/16 miles to be offered in the Preakness Stakes, Trinniberg shouldn’t have a problem with a gate to run front running style victory.
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