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We're going to see how they both keep coming along," said Miller, who, along with the aid of assistant trainer Tony Alagna, has started 13 horses at Woodbine this year and holds a record of 8-2-1, good for a U.T.R. of .726. "We've qualified them both now. They're doing okay and we're probably going to bring one or both of them [to the WEG circuit]." The pair of warhorses have yet to race this season, but both made their 2006 qualifying debuts on May 24 at Hawthorne Racecourse in Illinois. The duo raced one-two in the dash, with Quik Pulse Mindale going wire-to-wire in 1:54.1 and Timesareachanging finishing a nose back in second after taking a pocket trip. The fractions were cut in :29, :57.1 and 1:27 before Quik Pulse Mindale kicked home with a :27,1 final quarter-mile. "We're going to qualify them back again next Wednesday [May 31 at Hawthorne] and see how that goes," Miller said. "The other thing is that since they haven't raced this year, they might fit a bit of a cheaper class here and I want to be able to kind of get them started without putting them right into the Open." Quik Pulse Mindale, a five-year-old son of Jennas Beach Boy, has won 15 of his 24 lifetime starts to go along with his four place finishes and one show effort. The bay is owned by Lloyd Arnold and the estate of Nancy Arnold and has earned in excess of $841,000 in his career. He holds a mark of 1:48-flat and last raced at Woodbine in March of 2005 during a preliminary round of the Spring Pacing Championship. "I actually got him quite a while ago," Miller said of Quik Pulse Mindale, who hasn't raced in a pari-mutuel event since that 'SPC' dash. "I qualified him twice last year, and he won both of them, but then he fractured his p1 [pastern bone]. After qualifying him last year, I had him into go in an overnight and he fractured the bone going a slow mile here at home leading up to it. "We just gave him a lot of time getting back and so far he's been really good. We've been bringing him back really easy because we're trying to protect him and not have something like that go wrong again." Timesareachanging, who as a three-year-old in 2004 won the Little Brown Jug, the Adios and dead-heated for the win spot in the Cane Pace, took a somewhat softer approach in 2005, as he has been pointed to fully engage the older ranks this season. "I just got him at the first of this year and have just got him back ready. He had been turned out for a while so he could go and mature a little," Miller explained. "He raced his four-year-old season pretty lightly. He was taken care of because with his four-year-old year it would've been tough to race against older pacers - especially after his year at three - so that's what the owners were gearing him up for this season." Timesareachanging is owned by Perfect World Enterprises, holds a mark of 1:48.4 and has over $1.4-million in purses to his credit. He has made 51 career starts - the large majority of them being stakes tests - and has compiled a record of 16-9-6. Both of the star pacers would only make the WEG Opens that much tougher, as the class has been flashing unbelievable speed all season long. And, with the way the pupils have been racing so far this year at Woodbine, Tony Alagna's barn at Classy Lane is a perfect place for them to excel. "So far Tony has done a really good job for me," Miller said. "We've just been trying to get [horses] ready to send them up to him. Tony had been in Florida with me along with all the young horses. The Ontario programme is as good as there is anywhere, and we have a few Canadian-breds, so we just thought it would be good to set up there. So far it's worked out pretty well for us."
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