Clark Next for Noble Bird

John Oxley's Noble Bird (Birdstone) will now be aimed at the Nov. 25 GI Clark H. after his record-setting win in Saturday's GII Fayette S. at Keeneland.

“We came over to Keeneland and the Clark was really the main goal after the [Aug. 6 GI] Whitney,” said Norman Casse, son and assistant to father Mark. “We gave him a little bit of a break after that race and then decided to point him to the Clark and I think we saw what we wanted out of him with his win.”

Noble Bird won the May 20 GIII Pimlico Special before finishing off the board in the GI Met Mile and GI Whitney. He wired the field in the Oct. 1 Lukas Classic at Churchill before his 5 3/4-length victory at Keeneland Saturday.

“I think that [jockey] Julien [Leparoux] is getting to know him a little bit better,” Casse said. “We're really starting to figure him out what makes him tick a little bit more and he's a horse that's really coming into form right when we want him to.”

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