ELMONT, N.Y. - With career-ending ailments suffered by Left Bank and Street Cry, the handicap division is starving for a new leader. Saturday's $500,000 Woodward Stakes at Belmont Park affords Lido Palace - a handicap division leader in the summer of 2001 - the opportunity to regain his position.
In attempting to repeat his Woodward win of a year ago, Lido Palace will face a field made up of second- and third-tier older horses, many of whom were looking to run elsewhere before this field lost its luster.