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Aqueduct Racetrack Notes
- Mo Town fires bullet ahead of G2 Remsen bid
- Tagg prepares to double up in G1 Cigar Mile
- Brown readies his holiday stakes contingent
- Updated probables for Cigar Mile Week stakes
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Trainer Tony Dutrow is “very, very happy” with likely Grade 2, $300,000 Remsen favorite Mo Town, after his star 2-year-old turned in a bullet breeze over Belmont Park’s main track Saturday morning as he prepares to make his much-anticipated stakes debut on next weekend’s Cigar Mile Day.
A bay colt by Uncle Mo, Mo Town worked a sharp five-furlongs in 59 2/5 seconds under his regular exercise rider Carlos Martinez, the fastest of eight at the distance. NYRA clockers caught him galloping out six furlongs in 1:12 2/5.
“Ideally, in a perfect world, I’d have liked to see him go about a minute and gallop out in about [1:13], but the track’s been fast,” said Dutrow. “But the horse did it very well within himself. He came back good and scoped good. We’ve got to be very, very happy with that. I think we’re very close to being exactly where we want to be.”
Mo Town, owned in partnership by Mrs. John Magnier, Michael Tabor, Derrick Smith and Dutrow’s Team D Stable, was tabbed as the 6-5 morning-line favorite in the Grade...
