Crowded Trade set for turf debut in $100K Carle Place
At 2h12, on October 18, 2021 • By BELMONT
Klaravich Stables’ multiple graded stakes placed Crowded Trade will make his grass debut in Friday’s inaugural running of the $100,000 Carle Place, a seven-furlong Widener turf sprint for sophomores at Belmont Park.
Trained by four-time Eclipse Award-winning trainer Chad Brown, the More Than Ready chestnut graduated at first asking sprinting six furlongs in January at Aqueduct Racetrack. The chestnut colt followed with a pair of game efforts at the Big A, finishing second by a nose to Weyburn in the one-mile Grade 3 Gotham in March and third to Bourbonic in the nine-furlong Grade 2 Wood Memorial in April.
Following an even fifth in the Grade 1 Preakness in May at Pimlico, Crowded Trade did not return until August when a distant third in the Grade 2 Amsterdam, contested over a sloppy and sealed main track at Saratoga Race Course.
He enters from a troubled fifth in a 6 1/2-furlong allowance sprint on September 4 at Saratoga won by Baby Yoda, who exited that effort to finish third in the Grade 2 Vosburgh here last Saturday.
A $185,000 Keeneland September Yearling Sale purchase, Crowded Trade breezed five-eighths over the Oklahoma training turf Friday in 1:02.95 as Brown looks to re-invent the talented colt.
“He breezed well on it. He’s certainly bred on top for it,” Brown said. “I’m going to try and change it up with that horse a little bit. He didn’t develop the way we hoped on the dirt, so we’ll try this.”
Joel Rosario has the call from the inside post.
