Phipps Stable’s co-owned stakes winner Perform is looking to get back to his winning ways in Race 3 on Friday, August 2 at Saratoga.
The allowance optional claiming race for ages three years and older has a purse of $115,000 and will cover a mile and an eight on the dirt. Perform will break from the inside post with jockey Dylan Davis aboard for trainer Shug McGaughey.
Perform enters the five-horse race as the second favorite with odds of 5/2. Post time is 2:18 pm Eastern.
He broke his maiden in his sixth career start and second as a sophomore last March at Tampa. He followed it up with a victory in the Federico Tesio Stakes at Laurel Park in April, a win that qualified him for the grade 1 Preakness. He struggled to become factor in the deeper waters, finishing sixth in a field that included Kentucky Derby winner Mage and, now a three-time grade 1 winner, National Treasure. In his last start as a 3-year-old, he finished off the board in the Curlin Stakes at Saratoga in July.
The colt by Hill ‘n’ Dale Farms stallion Good Magic ended a 10-month layoff in May and has finished second or third in each of his three monthly starts so far this year.
Perform’s granddam is a half-sister to sires Into Mischief and Mendelssohn, as well as four-time champion Beholder. He was purchased for $230,000 at the 2021 Keeneland September sale and is owned in partnership by Woodford Racing LLC, Lane’s End Farm, Phipps Stable, Ken Langone, Lynne Hudson, and Edward Hudson, Jr.
Photo: Perform in his June 7th start at Saratoga.
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