Perform Progresses With Runner-Up Effort at Saratoga

Phipps Stable’s co-owned Perform moved forward on Friday at Saratoga in the second start of his 4-year-old campaign.

With Dylan Davis aboard for the mile-and-a-quarter allowance optional claimer over the dirt, he broke from the 8 hole and bumped with a rival at the start. He settled in on the rail near the back of the field nearing the first turn and remained on the inside up the backstretch. He responded to urging entering in the far turn, picking off foes to hit the top of the stretch on the rail in third. He moved out under a drive, passing another foe to take runner-up honors.

Last time out, he finished third among allowance company at Aqueduct in a race that ended a 10-month layoff. The Good Magic colt won the Frederico Tesio Stakes last year and took sixth in the grade 1 Preakness.

Trained by Shug McGaughey, Perform is owned in partnership by Woodford Racing LLC, Lane’s End Farm, Phipps Stable, Ken Langone, and Edward Hudson, Jr.