American Pharoah jogs at Belmont Park

ELMONT, N.Y. – American Pharoah, the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner, on Wednesday morning had his first tour of the Belmont Park track over which he will try to win the Belmont Stakes on Saturday and seemed to take in his surroundings with the same aplomb with which he's handled just about everything else during his bid to become the 12th Triple Crown winner.

Trainer Bob Baffert was amused by the way American Pharoah first came onto the Belmont track, showing his usual command of the situation even though it was his first time on the track.

"Always marching," Baffert, standing on the apron, said as American Pharoah jogged past him at a quick pace.

American Pharoah merely jogged Wednesday after traveling here Tuesday. The original plan was for him to backtrack to the three-eighths pole and then turn around, but assistant trainer Jim Barnes, on an accompanying pony, radioed Baffert that Pharoah was "really sharp," so Baffert told Barnes to let American Pharoah continue one lap around the track, the wrong way, exiting where he entered, the gap at the 1 1/4-mile pole.

Entries for the Belmont are due Wednesday morning, and posts will be drawn Wednesday around noon during a ceremony at the skating rink at Rockefeller Center, adjacent to the NBC headquarters in Manhattan.