Article on Indygo Mountain (for Peacerules)
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from Daily Racing Form:
NEW ORLEANS -- The connections of Indygo Mountain can only hope Round 2 of the Fair Grounds 3-year-old stakes series goes better than Round 1. It hardly could be worse.
Indygo Mountain, a $600,000 yearling by A.P. Indy, hit the early Triple Crown radar with an impressive one-mile maiden win at Churchill Downs in October, but little went right in the ensuing two months. The colt battled foot trouble after coming to Fair Grounds, and actually was scratched on the track minutes before he was to have started in a December allowance race. Already behind in his training, Indygo Mountain quickly fell far behind the early leaders after hitting the gate at the start of the Jan. 10 Lecomte Stakes, and he wound up a distant sixth that day.
But trainer Bret Calhoun is optimistic that things will unfold far more favorably here Saturday when Indygo Mountain returns in the $200,000 Risen Star.
"That last race was disheartening, but I think that's just a throw-out race," Calhoun said Wednesday on a relatively frigid Fair Grounds backstretch. "I think he'll improve significantly this time."
Indygo Mountain is pretty gigantic, tall, long-legged and long-bodied. All the parts have taken time to work in tandem, but Calhoun is seeing progress.
"His legs used to go everywhere when he ran," Calhoun said, "but now he's getting them under him a lot better."
Indeed, when Indygo Mountain had a five-furlong work here Jan. 29, only Old Fashioned bettered his time of 1:00.
NEW ORLEANS -- The connections of Indygo Mountain can only hope Round 2 of the Fair Grounds 3-year-old stakes series goes better than Round 1. It hardly could be worse.
Indygo Mountain, a $600,000 yearling by A.P. Indy, hit the early Triple Crown radar with an impressive one-mile maiden win at Churchill Downs in October, but little went right in the ensuing two months. The colt battled foot trouble after coming to Fair Grounds, and actually was scratched on the track minutes before he was to have started in a December allowance race. Already behind in his training, Indygo Mountain quickly fell far behind the early leaders after hitting the gate at the start of the Jan. 10 Lecomte Stakes, and he wound up a distant sixth that day.
But trainer Bret Calhoun is optimistic that things will unfold far more favorably here Saturday when Indygo Mountain returns in the $200,000 Risen Star.
"That last race was disheartening, but I think that's just a throw-out race," Calhoun said Wednesday on a relatively frigid Fair Grounds backstretch. "I think he'll improve significantly this time."
Indygo Mountain is pretty gigantic, tall, long-legged and long-bodied. All the parts have taken time to work in tandem, but Calhoun is seeing progress.
"His legs used to go everywhere when he ran," Calhoun said, "but now he's getting them under him a lot better."
Indeed, when Indygo Mountain had a five-furlong work here Jan. 29, only Old Fashioned bettered his time of 1:00.
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