Carrothers Race Recap

Following a wide trip today, Carrothers finished seventh at Aqueduct in his dirt debut.

Ridden by Eric Cancel, Carrothers raced in fifth position down the backstretch of the one-mile race after breaking from outside post 10. Turning for home, he was seven-wide, but looked like he was going to do some running at the eighth pole — despite racing on the wrong lead — but he failed to have a strong enough closing punch to be impactful at the finish.

Carrothers was beaten nine lengths by the winner and post-time favorite, Core Conviction. Overall, the effort was a vast improvement over his 20 1/2-length loss on the turf in his U.S. debut.

Trainer Bill Mott told our East Coast Racing Manager, Harry Rice: “I thought he broke well, and was in a good position early on. I would’ve been a bit happier if we were closer to the rail, but that’s ok. We were bumped going around the turn, but it didn’t seem to bother him too much. I thought we were in a great spot at the eighth pole, but he just didn’t kick on.”

Leana Willaford, Mott’s New York-based assistant, reported that Carrothers scoped clean after the race. In the coming days, we will report back with how the colt came out of his race.

Please enjoy these race-day photos, courtesy of track photographer Adam Coglianese.