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Mark Fletcher Taylor, Daniel Walters, and trainer Rohan Crichton’s Macho Music worked Friday for a probable next start in the $500,000 Woody Stephens (G1) on June 7 during the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival at Saratoga Race Course.
The Maclean’s Music bay breezed five furlongs in 1:00.60 over the Churchill Downs training track as his first breeze back since a 3 1/4-length score in the Pat Day Mile (G2) on Kentucky Derby Day at Churchill.
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“It was good. He worked really well,” said Crichton. “Julien Leparoux worked him and said he galloped out really well. We are happy, and he cooled out well, so we are moving forward.”
Macho Music’s last-out score over the Bob Baffert-trained pair of Madaket Road and Gaming registered a career-best 97 Beyer Speed Figure. The performance validated a previous 11 1/4-length score in the seven-furlong Sophomore versus fellow Florida-breds on March 30 at Tampa Bay Downs.
Crichton said returning Macho Music to seven-furlongs in the Woody Stephens should be appreciated.
“We like the cutback, we’d like it as well if it was one mile, but I think the cutback may end up suiting him,” Crichton said. “We think seven furlongs is well within his scope.”
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Crichton, a partner at an accounting firm, earned his first graded stakes win in the Pat Day Mile and now pursues his first Grade 1.
“It was really gratifying to see him run that way. That was our biggest win for sure, no doubt. I think he is getting ready to put in another good run. He’s come out of that race full of energy and focus, and he’s doing really well,” said Crichton. “We are probably going to sit chilly in Louisville due to weather and ship to Saratoga after his next work.”
It doesn’t take an accountant to realize the high return on investment of Macho Music, a $60,000 purchase at the 2024 OBS March Sale of Two-Year-Olds in Training who has banked $501,857 through an 8-4-2-0 record. He is out of the stakes-winning Tapit mare Southern Girl, a half-sister to 2013 Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) winner Mucho Macho Man and full sister to Grade 2 winner Marconi.
“He didn’t work particularly fast at that sale [10 2/5 seconds] but his gallop-out was really good and we felt that the conditions, he ran against a head wind, there were some non-quantitative factors that went into it,” Crichton said. “We liked his second dam [Ponche de Leona] and her influence as a broodmare, she threw Mucho Macho Man, but this was all the recommendation of Stephen Skaggs, I just put my hand up.”
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