GI Claiborne Breeders' Futurity runner-up Blackout Time (Not This Time) is on track to kick off his 3-year-old season in the GII Rebel Stakes Mar. 1 at Oaklawn Park, according to co-owner Lance Gasaway Saturday morning.
Unraced since that second-place finish behind juvenile champion MGISW Ted Noffey (Into Mischief) at Keeneland, he had been entered in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile but was scratched by the regulatory vet because of an alleged soundness issue. Blackout Time returned to the worktab Jan. 23 at Fair Grounds and after a couple works at the venue, shipped to Oaklawn Park to join the Ken McPeek string there. He will be working to get off the HISA vet's list Wednesday and regain racing eligibility in jurisdictions under HISA guidelines.
“Wednesday will be our fourth work and then we want to get two more,” Gasaway said. “So, that's six works. He's doing good. He worked five-eighths the other day and a half the week before that and he wasn't even breathing.”
“We don't need any (hiccups), but we're doing good.”
The Rebel is Oaklawn's third Kentucky Derby point race in their series, and will offer 50 points to the winner toward starting eligibility.
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