Bodenheimer Makes 3-Year-Old Debut in Palisades Turf Sprint

Kristin Boice and Marylou Holden’s Bodenheimer, winner of Keeneland’s Indian Summer (L) Presented by Keeneland Select in October, will make his first start of the year on Friday’s opening day of the Spring Meet in the $100,000 Palisades Turf Sprint going 5½ furlongs. He closed his 2-year-old campaign with an eighth-place finish in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint (G2) here in November.

Named the 2020 Washington-Bred Horse of the Year, Bodenheimer spent the winter at Oaklawn Park, where he closed his steady series of workouts with a 5-furlong breeze in 1:02 on March 26.

“He is doing very well,” trainer Valorie Lund said. “He has matured a lot. He is a bigger, stouter horse. He has been training well at Oaklawn Park and he is looking good. We went to Oaklawn because we did not want to lose too much time training even though we did lose some time (because of weather) but not as much as was lost in Kentucky.”

Lund, whose 20-horse stable is based at Ashwood Training Center in Lexington, relocated to Kentucky year-round last year after spending winters at Turf Paradise in Arizona and summers at tracks such as Canterbury Park in Minnesota. She purchased Bodenheimer as a yearling at a Washington sale in part because he resembles his maternal grandsire, A.P. Indy, and because she trained and exercised his sire, Grade 2 winner sire Atta Boy Roy. 

Bodenheimer is named Lund’s for brother-in-law Entz Bodenheimer Boice.