Brinkman has big plans for Lafayette winner old homestead

Trainer Brett Brinkman came to Keeneland this week from Louisiana with hopes of grabbing a stakes victory or two. 

Thanks to Old Homestead, he has one win in his pocket thanks to a 3¾-length triumph in Friday’s $400,000 Lafayette. Brinkman’s hope for a second victory rides with Cilla in this afternoon’s $500,000 Madison (G1). 

Owned by Marablue Farm and Pegasus Stud, Old Homestead has won his three career starts by a combined 21 lengths. His first two victories came at Delta Downs going 5 furlongs and then he won the 7-furlong Lafayette. 

“The Pat Day Mile (G2) is under consideration,” Brinkman said of the $500,000 race at Churchill Downs on Kentucky Derby Day, May 7. “He will stay here until at least the middle of May. 

“I’m planning now for the summer and I’d like to get one more race before Saratoga and look at a race maybe like the Amsterdam (G2).”