Carrot Farm's G2 UAE Derby runner-up Epicharis (Jpn) (Gold Allure {Jpn}), currently being aimed at the GI Belmont S. June 10, emerged from his Wednesday breeze in good order and entered isolation Thursday in Japan, according to trainer Kiyoshi Hagiwara.
He was moved on Thursday to the quarantine barn at the JRA Miho Training Center to begin his weeklong isolation in Japan before shipping to North America. Epicharis is scheduled to arrive at Belmont Park June 1, a roughly 24-hour trip from Miho, located in the Ibaraki Prefecture.
On Wednesday, Epicharis worked five furlongs over the uphill woodchip course in 1:05.2 under assistant trainer Masaaki Minamida at the Miho Training Center.
“I am pleased with his work,” Hagiwara said. “He looks fine and he moved sharply. He has been doing well. Considering the long trip to Belmont via Anchorage and Chicago, I will give him one more timed work in Japan at the same course on Sunday and the last one will be at Belmont on Tuesday or Wednesday the week of the race.”
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