Million-dollar earner Chamberlain Bridge returned to form with an on-pace victory in the LR Bonapaw Stakes at Fair Grounds on Saturday.

The War Chant speedster ran the 1100m in 63.41s with Jamie Theriot aboard.  “We’ve had a rough year,” trainer Bret Calhoun said in New Orleans.  “Physically, he’s been the same horse as he was during that great campaign last year.  But mentally he hasn’t been the same.”

Chamberlain Bridge (7g War Chant – She’s Got Class by Trempolino) won the 2010 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint but could only finish eighth in this year’s BC Turf Sprint.  “I’m feeling a lot better,” Calhoun said.  “I was starting to wonder if he was going to really run again so it was nice to see him run a big race.”

Chamberlain Bridge is by Yarradale Stud shuttler War Chant and was bred in Kentucky by Eugene Melnyk.  Calhoun claimed the gelding for $35,000 in 2008 and he now won 18 times for earnings over $1.73 million.