Belmont Park horses to watch: Week of Oct. 12

ROYAL BLESSING
Trainer: Tom Albertrani
Last race: Oct. 2, 5th
Finish: 4th by 3 1/4
Beyer: 81
After a pair of three-wide trips at Saratoga, this 4-year-old by Kitten’s Joy made up 14 lengths to midstretch before running into a blind switch at the eighth pole of a first-level allowance route on turf.

ALL TIED UP
Trainer: Todd Pletcher
Last race: Oct. 3, 9th
Finish: 5th by 3 1/2
Beyer: 63
This fittingly named 2-year-old was off a step slow, saved ground on the turn, and lacked room along the rail in a $65,000 maiden claimer on the Widener turf.

BALANCE THE BOOKS
Trainer: Chad Brown
Last race: Oct. 5, 8th
Finish: 9th by 5
Beyer: 82
Running on firm turf for the first time since a tough-trip third in last year’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf, he was much closer to the early leaders than usual and lacked room through the stretch of the Jamaica Handicap.

QUIET ENDING
Trainer: Christophe Clement
Last race: Oct. 6, 3rd
Finish: 4th by 1 1/4
Beyer: 76
Favored for her return from a late-summer freshening, this New York-bred filly stumbled at the start to come away slowly and steadied while lacking room turning for home in a first-level allowance sprint on the inner turf.