Belmont Park: Lovely Syn bound for Bouwerie Stakes

Lovely Syn made it 3 for 3 with an impressive 9 1/2-length victory in Sunday’s $100,000 Park Avenue Division of the New York Stallion Stakes and most likely will make her next start in the $125,000 Bouwerie Stakes on June 1.

All of Lovely Syn’s wins have come sprinting, and the Bouwerie Stakes is at seven furlongs, but trainer Dominick Schettino hasn’t ruled out stretching out Lovely Syn in distance at some point.

“We’ll stretch her out little by little,” Schettino said. “Watching her gallop out and the way she does things, we’re hoping she can go further.”

Lovely Syn, a daughter of Freud, ran 6 1/2 furlongs in 1:16.33 – a full second faster than the final time of Belief System, who won the Times Square Division – and earned a Beyer of 91.