Elizabeth Merryman-bred, owned and trained Grade 2-placed turf sprint specialist Witty, who earned a sixth career stakes victory in his April season opener at Laurel Park, breezed Saturday ahead of a planned return trip to next weekend’s Maryland Million.
The 5-year-old Witty, a younger half-brother to retired Grade 1-winning millionaire Caravel out of the mare Zeezee Zoomzoom, worked an easy four furlongs in 50 seconds over a fast main track at the Fair Hill Training Center in Elkton, Md. Witty is by top Maryland sire Great Notion.
“He’s doing good,” Merryman said of her charge. “We just got him out there today to give him a chance to do something. I never work him too fast. I just kind of let him go however he wants to go.”…