Trainer Todd Pletcher had a busy morning on father’s day as his two stars Quality Road and Super Saver run great half-mile breezes at Belmont Park. Quality Road managed to go the distance in 50.26 and Kentucky Derby winner Super Saver went four furlongs in a good 50.66 time. For Quality Road this meant the first move since the Memorial’s Day Metropolitan Handicap.

According to trainer Pletcher the next target for Quality Road could possibly be the Whitney Handicap, a Group I race that will take place at the Saratoga Race Course on 7th August. For Super saver, on the other hand, the target will be Saratoga’s Travers Stakes on 28th August. About the training day, Pletcher commented: “We weren’t looking for much. It was a maintenance half for both. We’re still a ways away from their next races.”

“We’ll pick it up a little bit with Super Saver as we go along, but so far he’s doing very well,” trainer Pletcher commented. “I’m real happy with his overall condition and weight. The way he’s moving and everything else indicates to me he’s rounding into top form.” Pletcher added that he had considered a change in the timing of the first work back for Quality Road but he decided against it.

“If he were to run in the Suburban (gr. II, July 3) or something, I would have worked him last week,” Pletcher said about Quality Road. “But with him not running until August 7, I didn’t really feel the need to work him last week. I probably could have waited another week, but I didn’t want to get into a situation where we were playing catch up at any point.”