Mystik Dan, winner of the 2024 Kentucky Derby (G1), returned to the Churchill Downs work tab June 15 with a five-furlong breeze in 1:00 under jockey Brian Hernandez Jr., preparing for a likely start in the $1 million Stephen Foster Stakes (G1) June 28.
Mystik Dan, who won the Blame Stakes (G3) May 31, breezed at 7:15 a.m. He began his move with a three-furlong split of :36 4/5 before galloping out six furlongs in 1:12, according to Churchill Downs clocker John Nichols.
Owned by 4 G Racing, Lance Gasaway, Daniel Hamby, and Valley View Farm, Mystik Dan is one of two horses trained by Kenny McPeek nominated to the Stephen Foster. The other, allowance winner and 1 1/8-mile track record holder Gould's Gold, also worked Sunday, covering five furlongs in 1:00 1/5.
Twenty horses were nominated to the 1 1/8-mile Stephen Foster, including Sierra Leone, winner of the Breeders' Cup Classic (G1); Hit Show, winner of the Dubai World Cup (G1); and Mindframe, who was victorious in the Churchill Downs Stakes (G1) on the Kentucky Derby undercard.
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