Coach Derek Ryan is weighing choices for his New Jersey-bred grade 1 winner E-book’em Danno as he plots a course to the $500,000 H. Allen Jerkens Memorial (G1) at Saratoga Race Course Aug. 24.
Coaching at his dwelling base of Monmouth Park, the Bucchero gelding logged his second exercise July 11, a bullet 4 furlongs in :47, since defeating grade 1 winners Prince of Monaco and Nutella Fella within the June 8 Woody Stephens Stakes (G1) at Saratoga.
“He labored good, got here again good. No issues,” reported Ryan. “We’ve a few completely different choices (for his subsequent race), we have not determined. It is dependent upon the observe and the climate, a little bit of all the things.”
These choices embrace the six-furlong $100,000 Jersey Shore Stakes at his dwelling observe July 19 and the 6 1/2-furlong Amsterdam Stakes (G2) at Saratoga July 26. Ryan has additionally not dominated out a begin on grass.
Undefeated in 5 races underneath one mile, E-book’em Danno’s solely two losses had been second-place finishes on the one-mile distance.
A two-time stakes winner at 2, E-book’em Danno began his season with a win within the Pasco Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs earlier than barely getting caught on the wire by eventual UAE Derby (G2) winner and Kentucky Derby (G1) third-place finisher Ceaselessly Younger within the Saudi Derby (G3).
Bred by Gregory Kilka and Vivid View Farm, E-book’em Danno has earned $835,625 for proprietor Atlantic Six Racing.