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Weyburn breaks his maiden at Aqueduct on the Cigar Mile undercard
Chiefswood Stables homebred Weyburn, a 20-1 morning-line assessment for Saturday s Grade 3 Gotham, breezed three-eighths in 35.42 seconds Thursday on the Belmont dirt training track.
Rob Landry, a Canadian Hall of Fame jockey and general manager for Chiefswood, said the Jimmy Jerkens trainee will be ready to fire fresh off a third-out maiden win in December when sprinting seven furlongs over a sloppy and sealed Big A main track that garnered a 69 Beyer.
“Jimmy said he s been training well. He went in 35 and change this morning,” said Landry. “We had him entered a few weeks back in a stakes at Aqueduct [Jimmy Winkfield on Jan. 31] but he had a foot abscess and had to scratch, so we re looking to get him started back.”