Brian Bohl
Tapit Today broke through in a stakes after a trio of close efforts, running down pacesetter Mitchell Road from the outside in the final furlong and holding off her competitor for a one-length win in Sunday’s Grade 3, $100,000 Athenia at Belmont Park.
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Chester and Mary Broman's Mr. Buff got back on track to take the $175,000 Empire Classic Handicap in front-running fashion for the second straight year, putting the finishing touches on a thrilling day of New York-bred stakes action on Saturday's annual Empire Showcase Day card at Belmont Park.
Keith McCalmont
Mary Abeel Sullivan Revocable Trust's Get Smokin made every call a winning one to turn the tables on familiar foe Decorated Invader in Sunday's Grade 2, $150,000 Hill Prince, a one-mile Widener turf test for sophomores at Belmont Park.
Brian Bohl
Ryan Martin
Jim and Susan Hill's New York-bred Lead Guitar switched tactics to best open company for the second time in a row, notching a three-quarter length score in Saturday's third running of the $80,000 Floral Park for fillies and mares 3-years-old and upward going six furlongs over the inner turf at Belmont Park.
Brian Bohl
Royal Approval overtook pacesetter Union Gables in the final furlong and closed strongly to register three-quarters of a length victory for her first stakes score in Sunday’s Grade 3, $100,000 Matron for juvenile fillies on Belmont Park’s inner turf.
