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With every passing month, the loss of champion Arrogate early in his stallion career becomes starker. It was apparent again Saturday evening, as Arcangelo won the Belmont Stakes, conferring classic sire status on Arrogate posthumously.
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Arcangelo, the Belmont Stakes winner, will soon ship to Saratoga, where he will train this summer and where he potentially could run in races such as the Jim Dandy on July 29 and/or the Travers on Aug. 26, his connections said Sunday morning.
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From juvenile champion, to Florida Derby winner, to being scratched as the favorite on Kentucky Derby morning, the roller-coaster ride that Forte has been on during the opening half of his 3-year-old campaign didn’t quite end on the high note that trainer Todd Pletcher and his owners – Mike Repole and Vinnie Viola – had hoped for with his second-place finish in Saturday’s Belmont Stakes.
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Results and payouts from the 155th running of the Belmont Stakes on June 10, 2023, at Belmont Park, won by Arcangelo.
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Fifty years ago, Secretariat made Penny Chenery the First Lady of Thoroughbred racing with his Triple Crown sweep. Saturday, there was another first involving a woman, that being Jena Antonucci who became the first female trainer to win a Triple Crown race when Arcangelo beat defending 2-year-old champion Forte in the Belmont Stakes.
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When owner Jon Ebbert bought a son of Arrogate at the 2021 Keeneland yearling sale, he said his vision was to have a horse for the 2024 Breeders' Cup. How he would get there and would he even be good enough to get there were unknowns. That son of Arrogate, now named Arcangelo, seems to have charted a different path for himself, Ebbert, and trainer Jena Antonucci.
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Instead of smoke, there were mostly blue skies and a yellow -- not blood orange -- sun high above Belmont Park Friday.
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Belmont Stakes picks and analysis from Daily Racing Form handicappers across the United States.
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It's time to take one final look at how the Belmont Stakes participants' preparations have gone the previous two weeks. The majority of the training took place at Belmont Park but this report also includes the Brad Cox-trained trio of Belmont starters, who did all their major work at Churchill Downs.
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Forte didn't make the starting gate for either the Kentucky Derby or Preakness, but the results of those races may have only served to validate the credentials of the 2-year-old champion. Mage won the Derby. Forte beat him twice this spring. National Treasure and Blazing Sevens ran one-two in the Preakness. Forte beat them both in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile.
