Red Route One, Disarm Visit Churchill Downs Track | 2023 Preakness Stakes News

Red Route One had his final major training move for Saturday’s Preakness Stakes (G1) Sunday morning, breezing at Churchill Downs in 49.20 seconds in trainer Steve Asmussen’s well-established pattern of an easy half-mile the week of a race.

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Red Route One earned his first stakes victory in his last start, taking Oaklawn Park’s Bath House Row Stakes to earn a fees-paid berth in the Preakness.

Going out when the track opened at 5:30 a.m., Red Route One avoided the rain and thunder that swept through soon afterward.

His stablemate, Kentucky Derby fourth-place finisher Disarm, galloped as rain started to fall.

He’ll have his own “easy half” Monday morning.

The horses are scheduled to van to Baltimore Tuesday.

Both colts are sons of 2017 Horse of the Year Gun Runner and owned by breeder Ron Winchell, the co-owner of Gun Runner with Three Chimneys Farm.