The multiple stakes winner Mitole has completed preparations for the Grade 3, $500,000 Count Fleet Sprint Handicap on Saturday, with his half-mile work in 50 seconds Tuesday at Oaklawn. The move came on a track rated fast.
"He blew out a little bit this morning, a half in 50," Asmussen said Tuesday. "We enter tomorrow."
Entries for the Count Fleet, as well as the Arkansas Derby and Oaklawn Handicap, will be taken tomorrow, Wednesday. The races will all be run on Saturday as part of the Racing Festival of the South.
There will be a ceremonial draw for the Arkansas Derby, according to Oaklawn racing secretary Pat Pope.
Mitole races for Bill and Corinne Heiligbrodt.