By DRF.com SUNLAND PARK, NM. (Mar. 21, 2022) — Stakes winners Slow Down Andy and Straight Up G and fellow California-bred Fowler Blue are entered in Saturday’s $500,000 Sunland Park Derby. Trainer Doug O’Neill said Sunday that the $500,000 Sunland Park Derby was chosen over the Grade 1 Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland on April 9 to give Slow Down Andy, winner of the Grade 2 Los Alamitos Futurity, a better chance for a first stakes win of 2022. Slow Down Andy finished sixth of 10 in the Grade 2 Risen Star Stakes at Fair Grounds on Feb. 19 in his first start this year. “We felt like it might come up best suited for a potential W for him,” O’Neill said of the Sunland Park Derby. “It might be a cut below the Blue Grass. It’s $500,000 and it’s not an easy race by any means. “We feel it’s a good place to try to get him back on a positive note.” :: Win big at Santa Anita: Get... ...
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