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‘Contemplating Options': Mystik Dan Possible For Turf Debut After Saratoga Work

'Contemplating Options': Mystik Dan Possible For Turf Debut After Saratoga Work originally appeared on Paulick Report. Lance Gasaway, 4 G Racing, Daniel Hamby, III, and Valley View Farm's Grade 1 Kentucky Derby-winner Mystik Dan took to the grass for the first time on Friday over Saratoga Race Course's Oklahoma turf training track, with NYRA clockers timing him through a solo five-eighths breeze in 1:02 flat with Luis Rivera, Jr. up.'Really pleased,' trainer Ken McPeek said at his Saratoga barn. 'I always wanted to try him on the turf, and he looked like he loved it. We're contemplating some options and this is a horse that's done everything we've ever asked him to do. I think he'll relish it; it's just a matter of finding the right spot at the right time.' The 4-year-old son of Goldencents was last seen finishing fourth in the G1 Stephen Foster on June 28 at Churchill Downs, the site of his Kentucky Derby coup last year over subsequent Champion 3-Year-Old Colt Sierra Leone, as well as a 1 1/4-length score in the G3 Blame two starts Dan is out of the Colonel John mare Ma'am, whose four wins included one on turf in 2017 at Ellis Park. Ma'am is a half-sister to Renaissance Art, who was G3-placed going 12 furlongs on turf in Hong Kong, and Revamp, who was placed on synthetic going the same distance in England. His second dam Lady Siphonica is a half-sister to Rose of Summer, dam of Laragh – a G1-winner on synthetic and dual Listed stakes-winner on turf – and multiple turf graded stakes-winner Summer Front. Goldencents has also seen his progeny have success on turf, led by dual G1-winner Going to Vegas, along with multiple graded/group stakes-winners Phantom Currency and Wildman Jack, and G3-winner That's said he is still evaluating options for Mystik Dan, with an eye on the lucrative Kentucky Downs meet. 'There's a race down there that I think will be ideal for him, so right now that's what we're kind of leaning towards,' McPeek Dan holds a career record of 14-4-3-1 with more than $4.4 million in total purse earnings. He was bred in Kentucky by Gasaway, Hamby, and 4 G Racing. This story was originally reported by Paulick Report on Aug 1, 2025, where it first appeared.