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Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Funny Cide put in a sharp workout Tuesday, covering a half-mile in 47 4/5 seconds over Saratoga’s main track. But trainer Barclay Tagg insisted the New York-bred gelding was still “highly doubtful” for Saturday’s Travers.
– Perfect Drift’s disappointing eighth-place performance in Saturday’s Arlington Million has persuaded trainer Murray Johnson to turn down an invitation to run him in Australia’s prestigious Group I Cox Plate on Oct. 25. Johnson’s target now is the Chicago circuit’s richest dirt race, the Grade II $750,000 Hawthorne Gold Cup, on Sept. 28.
