NYRA Press Office
Trainer Wesley Ward will saddle promising 2-year-old Fauci in a five-furlong maiden sprint on Big Sandy set as Wednesday's third race on the Opening Day of the 25-day spring/summer meet, to be contested without spectators, at Belmont Park.
Keith McCalmont
Four-time Eclipse Award-winning trainer Chad Brown was trackside Thursday at Belmont Park to watch e Five Racing Thoroughbreds' Rushing Fall and Peter Brant's New York-bred Fifty Five breeze on the inner turf in preparation for the Grade 3, $150,000 Beaugay slated for Opening Day on Wednesday, June 3.
Keith McCalmont
St. Elias Stable's Dr Post, Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners, Chrysalis Stables and Robert V. LaPenta's Farmington Road, and Team Valor International and WinStar Farm's Gouverneur Morris will represent trainer Todd Pletcher in the 152nd renewal of the Grade 1, $1 million Belmont Stakes, a 1 1/8-mile test set for June 20 at Belmont Park.
Keith McCalmont
Sackatoga Stable's Tiz the Law, bred in New York by Twin Creeks Farm, breezed a bullet five furlongs in 59.75 seconds on the Palm Meadows dirt Sunday in preparation for the Grade 1, $1 million Belmont Stakes which is slated for Saturday, June 20 at Belmont Park.
Keith McCalmont
George E. Hall's Max Player will race out of his own barn as one of the local hopes in the 152nd renewal of the Grade 1, $1 million Belmont Stakes, to be contested at nine furlongs on June 20 as the opening leg of the Triple Crown for the first time in history of the series.
Keith McCalmont
Red Oak Stable and Madaket Stables' Mind Control, a dual Grade 1-winner on the New York Racing Association (NYRA) circuit, will get to target the Grade 1, $250,000 Runhappy Carter Handicap after all.
