American Aviator to go all the way on Sunday

JASON DaCosta retaining Tevin Foster to partner AMERICAN AVIATOR, despite going three pounds over the allotted 114lb, indicates the champion trainer is supremely confident that the foreigner can go gate-to-wire in Sunday’s King’s Plate at seven and a half furlongs. Given AMERICAN AVIATOR’s tendency to quit if eyeballed, DaCosta could have called on any of the claiming riders in abundance but chose to stick with Foster, who has twice won aboard the four-year-old at seven furlongs, including a March 1 humbling of WE JAMMIN, last year’s champion two-year-old.