Tale of Verve Feeling 'OK'

Tale of Verve | Horsephotos

Also on the Churchill tab Saturday morning was owner Charles Fipke's Tale of Verve (Tale of Ekati), who drilled five-eighths of a mile in 1:01.40 ahead of next Sunday's GIII Oklahoma Derby at Remington Park. Runner-up to American Pharoah in the GI Preakness S. May 16, Tale of Verve was a distant seventh in the GI Belmont S. June 6 and sixth in the GII West Virginia Derby Aug. 1 before finishing well back in eighth in the Travers.

“I think he ran well in West Virginia, he just ran out of ground,” trainer Dallas Stewart commented. “[Gary] Stevens rode him twice [Belmont and Travers], and both of those tracks are really heavy. He told me that he couldn't pick his feet up on those sandy tracks up there. But he's been training really well at Churchill. I thought he worked great and hopefully he'll get along with the track at Remington. We'll see how it plays out.”

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