OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Cyclone State, the 3 1/2-length winner of Saturday’s Jerome Stakes at Aqueduct, is scheduled to ship Jan. 12 to South Florida, where he will train while his connections ponder his next start, though it is unlikely to come in the $250,000 Withers Stakes on Feb. 1 at Aqueduct. Trainer Chad Summers said Cyclone State came out of the Jerome in good order, but noted he has run seven times in six months and likely won’t make his next start until the end of February or early March. “He’s run seven times, you want to have a horse for the rest of the year,” Summers said Sunday morning. “Unless he drags us into the race himself, I would be shocked to see us in the Withers.” :: Bet with the Best! Get FREE All-Access PPs and Weekly Cashback when you wager on DRF Bets. Among the potential next targets for Cyclone State are the $1.5 million Saudi Derby in Riyadh on Feb. 22, the Grade 3, $300,000 Gotham at Aqueduct, or the Grade 2, $400,000 Fountain of Youth at Gulfstream. The Gotham and Fountain of Youth are both run on March 1. The big pot and one-turn-mile configuration of the Saudi Derby are intriguing and could lead to a start in the $1 million U.A.E. Derby in Dubai on April 5. Summers, who trains for and is a bloodstock adviser to owner Al Gold, said Howard Wolowitz, owned by Gold and trained by Jose D’Angelo, is targeting the 1365 Turf Sprint in Saudi Arabia, so it wouldn’t be a stretch to ship Cyclone State as well. Cyclone State is owned by Gold, Michael Lee, and George Messina. Summers believes Cyclone State’s speed could play well in Saudi Arabia. “Speed’s dangerous over there because the European horses and the Japanese horses normally aren’t speed crazy in the beginning of the race, so the speed he’s shown in these races I think would make him pretty prolific over there,” Summers said. The Saudi Derby does not offer any Kentucky Derby qualifying points. The Gotham, a one-turn mile at Aqueduct, offers the winner 50 qualifying points toward the Derby and could make sense for Cyclone State since he has won his last three starts, all at a one-turn mile at Aqueduct. The Fountain of Youth, which also offers its winner 50 points, would afford Cyclone State the opportunity to stretch out to 1 1/16 miles and two turns for the first time. Summers believes Cyclone State, a son of McKinzie, could handle two turns. “The way he trains, he just keeps going,” Summers said. “You can’t get him tired in the morning.” Cyclone State, who earned 10 Kentucky Derby qualifying points for his Jerome victory, earned an 84 Beyer Speed Figure for the race. In addition to Cyclone State, Summers and Gold have another 3-year-old, Filoso, who could potentially make his next start in a Kentucky Derby points race. Filoso, a maiden winner going a mile at Saratoga, is currently at a farm in South Florida but will join with Summers, presumably at the Palm Meadows training center. Filoso, who finished third in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Futurity and was sixth in the Kentucky Jockey Club, is at the Nelson Jones Farms and Training Center in Ocala, Fla. Summers mentioned the Fountain of Youth, Gotham or potentially an allowance race for Filoso’s 3-year-old debut. “Whether you run in an allowance or a stakes race, it sets you up well for one major swing of the bat that last week of March, first week of April,” Summers said. Meanwhile, Omaha Omaha, runner-up to Cyclone State in the Jerome, will most likely make his next start in the Withers, trainer Michael Gorham said. The Withers, at 1 1/8 miles, offers its winner 20 qualifying points to the Kentucky Derby. Gorham feared the one-mile distance of the Jerome would be too short for Omaha Omaha and is looking forward to getting the horse out to longer distances. “It looked like even with an extra sixteenth he would have had a shot to get there,” said Gorham, who has his horses stabled at Laurel Park in Maryland. “He was picking it up right at the end.” :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.