Heart to Heart To Campaign Sparingly, BC Mile the Goal

Heart to Heart | Coady photography

Trainer Brian Lynch reported Saturday that Heart to Heart (English Channel) has emerged from his pacesetting success in Friday's GI Maker's 46 Mile no worse for the effort and will have a light campaign for the rest of the season with a year-end goal of the GI Breeders' Cup Mile at Churchill Downs.

“He had a nice hour out grazing,” Lynch said. “So he's in good order. He's been banging heads in that race for the last three years, ran two very game races in it in 2016 and 2017, so that was really cool to get it done.

“He'll have a couple more races through the summer, maybe two more, and hopefully be back here to Churchill for the Breeders' Cup,” Lynch added. “He'll maybe run again at Belmont and then run at Saratoga, and that will be his prep for getting him back here.”

The 7-year-old Ontario-bred is perfect in three starts beneath the Twin Spires, having won the GIII Jefferson Cup and GIII Commonwealth Turf in 2014 before tacking on a victory in the GII River City S. the following season.

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