By DRF.com DEL MAR, Calif. (July 17, 2012) — Lucky Primo, who returned from an eight-month layoff to win an allowance race on Saturday at Hollywood Park, will be pointed for the California Cup this fall, with just one start at Del Mar, trainer Joshua Litt said Tuesday.
Litt and Marty Jones, who trained Lucky Primo for Litt earlier in his career, have done an outstanding job with Lucky Primo, who has had his career interrupted several times by injury. Litt said Lucky Primo came out of the race “not too bad, for him.”
“He’s the kind of horse that always needs a lot of time to recover,” Litt said. “Ideally, I’d like to run him once at Del Mar, then give him about two months to train into the Cal Cup. He’s got a heart of gold.”
A gelding, Lucky Primo, 6, has now won 5 times in 14 starts. He is one of just eight horses trained by Litt, whose small stable owns 7 wins in 21 starts this year.