Let’s sit him out and let these wounds heal up and we’ll get him ready for Arkansas.’” “Luckily, the owners are very conservative and they let me do what I think,” Moquett said. Moquett said Man in the Can was stepped on from behind approaching the top of the stretch in the Blue Grass and sustained cuts, leading to a lengthy vacation. Man in the Can, who races for his co-breeder, trainer Ron Moquett of Hot Springs, Van Buren, Ark.-based JRita Young Thoroughbreds and Robert LaPenta, is seeking his first victory since June 2020.Īfter winning the Arkansas Breeders’ Championship Stakes and beating open allowance company (1 1/8 miles) at Churchill Downs in his next start, Man in the Can ran 13th in the $600,000 Blue Grass Stakes (G2) July 11 at Keeneland.

The Arkansas Breeders’ Championship Stakes is the biggest two-turn event for state-breds, 3 and up, during the Oaklawn meeting. It goes as the 10th of 11 races on the penultimate day of the 2021 meeting.

Probable post time for the third Arkansas Breeders’ Championship Stakes is 5:40 p.m. HOT SPRINGS, AR (Wednesday, April 28, 2021) – Defending champion Man in the Can is among 13 horses entered in the $200,000 Arkansas Breeders’ Championship Stakes at 1 1/16 miles Friday at Oaklawn.