Our Moneyman aims to follow Mr. Money’s Indiana Derby path

Our Moneyman brings a live pedigree-and-form test to Horseshoe Indianapolis’ $300,000 Indiana Derby, carrying the Mr. Money line back to the race his sire won in 2019. Chester Thomas owns the colt, Bret Calhoun trains him, and the pair will try to turn that family link into a graded-stakes result on July 11.

Thomas bred Our Moneyman in Louisiana, and the colt has backed up the bloodline with recent races that matter. He ran third in a strong allowance at Churchill Downs on May 2, then returned June 7 to finish second in the Matt Winn Stakes behind Further Ado, the same colt who had already stamped himself as one of the division’s heavy hitters by winning Keeneland’s Blue Grass Stakes by 11 lengths. That sequence gives Our Moneyman a legitimate case as more than a sentimental entry. He is arriving with form against horses already shaping the sophomore picture.

The Indiana Derby also fits neatly into the family’s Churchill Downs history. Mr. Money used his 2019 Indiana Derby victory as part of a four-race run that also included the Matt Winn Stakes and the West Virginia Derby, and Our Moneyman has already moved through similar Kentucky Derby undercard company at Churchill Downs. That continuity is part of the appeal here: the colt is not being asked to jump into deep water for the first time, he is being asked to stretch the line his sire once drew across the summer schedule.

Thomas said the colt came out of his latest start well and that he is eating, training and happy, the kind of report horsemen want before a major stakes assignment. A strong run at Horseshoe Indianapolis would give Calhoun another summer horse with graded-stakes value, give Thomas a return on a Louisiana-bred project that is now racing at a higher level, and add momentum to Mr. Money’s profile as an emerging sire. If Our Moneyman handles the Indiana Derby, the result will do more than pad a résumé. It will confirm that the Mr. Money story is still unfolding in real time.