NYRA Press Office

​A total of 96 horses are entered for Memorial Day Monday’s special 10-race all New York-bred card at Belmont Park to celebrate the best of New York racing for the annual Big Apple Showcase Day.

Mary Eddy

KatieRich Stables' Kentucky homebred American Apple will look to notch her second career graded triumph in Saturday’s Grade 3, $175,000 Soaring Softly, a seven-furlong Widener turf sprint for sophomore fillies, at Belmont Park.

Mary Eddy

Westerberg, Mrs. John Magnier, Jonathan Poulin, Derrick Smith and Michael B. Tabor’s stakes-winning New York-bred Eye Witness returns to action in Saturday’s $150,000 Paradise Creek, a seven-furlong Widener turf sprint for sophomores, at Belmont Park.

Ryan Martin

​Rodeo Creek Racing’s Grade 1-winner Blazing Sevens breezed five furlongs over the Belmont Park main track in his final serious move for the Grade 1, $1.5 million Preakness Stakes on May 20 at Pimlico Race Course.

Ryan Martin

​Cash Is King and LC Racing’s Dr B is set to commence her 5-year-old season in Sunday’s Grade 3, $175,000 Vagrancy going 6 1/2 furlongs for older fillies and mares over the Belmont Park main track.

Mary Eddy

Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher will have two chances to secure a record-extending fifth victory in the Grade 3, $200,000 Peter Pan as he saddles Victorious Racing’s Go Soldier Go and Whisper Hill Farm’s Classic Catch in Saturday’s nine-furlong test for sophomores at Belmont Park.