By Steve Sherack
Taken off the Triple Crown trail with an ankle chip, sensational GII Fasig-Tipton Risen Star S. upsetter Magnitude (Not This Time) has begun to gear up for a return to action this summer.
The Winchell Thoroughbreds colorbearer was a 9 3/4-length, front-running winner of the Risen Star at odds of 43-1 Feb. 15, good for a co-division leading 108 Beyer Speed Figure. He was credited with a four-furlong workout for Hall of Famer Steve Asmussen in :53.40 (54/54) at Churchill Downs May 15, his first breeze since having an ankle chip removed by Dr. Larry Bramlage four days after his Risen Star victory.
“He looks great. He's been coming back great,” the Winchell family's longtime advisor and racing manager David Fiske said. “He's coming right along and pointed for a mid-to-late summer campaign.”
Fiske continued, “So far, everything's gone according to schedule and pretty perfect since the surgery. I think it was a calendar issue, he couldn't get back in time for any of the big 3-year-old races the first part of the year. So, he'll try to get cranked up for the ones the second part of the year.”
“He's coming right along and pointed for a mid-to-late summer campaign.” Off the Triple Crown trail with an ankle chip, sensational GII Risen Star winner Magnitude (Not This Time) has returned to training. (Video courtesy Winchell advisor David Fiske). pic.twitter.com/lnL9erSmRA
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Magnitude got his picture taken twice last year and capped his five-race, 2-year-old campaign with a well-beaten second-place finish behind Built (Hard Spun) in the Gun Runner S. Dec. 21. He finished sixth–beaten 2 3/4 lengths–in the slop in the GIII Lecomte S. Jan. 18 before his breakout performance in the Risen Star.
“He continues to generate excitement,” Fiske said. “I was pretty excited after he won the Risen Star. Not only because he was our horse. Just the way he did it, and the figures that came back on it–he was just exciting at that time of the year. Fingers crossed, he's been doing everything great.”
One of 23 graded winners for leading young sire Not This Time, Magnitude was produced by the Bernardini mare Rockadelic, a daughter of MGISW and GI Kentucky Oaks runner-up Octave (Unbridled's Song). The $310,000 KEENOV weanling turned $450,000 KEESEP yearling was bred in Kentucky by Ron Stolich.
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