“TDN Rising Star” Sporting Chance (Tiznow) has been on the bench since winning the GI Hopeful S. Sept. 4 due to surgery to remove a knee chip, but will return to the races in Oaklawn's GIII Southwest S. Feb. 19, according to trainer D. Wayne Lukas. The bay is also being pointed for the GII Rebel S. in Hot Springs Mar. 17.
“We haven't had any serious works or anything, but we've got six or eight weeks,” Lukas said. “More than that, I guess. We should be in great shape. Really, a talented horse.”
A $575,000 KEESEP purchase, Sporting Chance graduated at second asking at Saratoga July 22 and followed suit with a narrow victory in a roughly run renewal of the Hopeful.
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