In his second start since a rousing maiden win at Saratoga in August, Phipps Stable homebred Pentathlon is entered for an allowance race on Saturday, October 12th at Aqueduct. The one-mile race over the dirt for ages three years and older has a purse of $92,000 and post time is 4:20 pm Eastern.
The promising chestnut 3-year-old enters the race as the morning-line second-favorite at 3-1. He will break from post No. 8 in a field of 9 entries with jockey Joel Rosario aboard for a third consecutive time.
Pentathlon took show honors in his allowance debut three weeks ago over a mile and an eighth after going to the lead out of the gate and showing the way through the far turn before weakening in the final sixteenth.
He is continuing to train forwardly for Hall of Fame trainer Claude R. “Shug” McGaughey, breezing four furlongs on the dirt training track at Belmont on October 6th in 47.47 seconds, ranking fifth of 112 that day.
A sixth-generation Phipps bred, Pentathlon is owned in partnership by his breeder, Vincent Viola’s St. Elias Stable, and the Farish family’s Woodford Racing partnership.
The Speightstown colt out of Tapit mare Parade is from the Personal Ensign branch of Argentine-bred Phipps foundation mare Dorine, acquired by Ogden Phipps in 1970.
Photo: Pentathlon with Joel Rosario aboard for his August 15th maiden win at Saratoga.
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