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Belmont Stakes trainers unfazed by Thursday track closure
Horsemen with runners in Saturday’s $1.5 million Belmont Stakes did not seem overly upset they were unable to train their horses Thursday at Belmont Park.
David GreningJun 08, 2023
Horsemen with runners in Saturday’s $1.5 million Belmont Stakes did not seem overly upset they were unable to train their horses Thursday at Belmont Park.
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Technically, Angel of Empire will be getting a change of equipment when trainer Brad Cox adds blinkers for Saturday's Belmont Stakes. However, the blinkers are not totally new to Angel of Empire, who has frequently trained in them throughout his career.
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Tapit, Quality Road, and Into Mischief – all elite-quality sires – are from sirelines descended from one of Secretariat's influential daughters, as Big Red's indelible flame continues to burn through the decades, 50 years after his dominant performances to end the Triple Crown drought.
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Forte and Tapit Trice, the first and second choices, respectively, for Saturday’s Belmont Stakes, came out to train immediately after the main track opened at 6 a.m. Tuesday. They each galloped once around the 1 1/2-mile oval and Tapit Trice definitely was the more aggressive of the pair.
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Seven of the last 10 winners of the Belmont Stakes have come from the barn of trainers Todd Pletcher, Brad Cox, Bob Baffert, and Steve Asmussen. Those four horsemen accounted for seven of the nine 3-year-olds entered Tuesday when post positions were assigned for Saturday’s $155th Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park.
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The field for Saturday’s 155th running of the Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park.
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When trainer Jena Antonucci sent Belmont Stakes contender Arcangelo out to train Tuesday morning, she was just looking for an open gallop where the colt would click off furlongs at a rate of approximately 15 seconds over a mile distance. Arcangelo had a different plan.
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Raise Cain, the eighth-place finisher from the Kentucky Derby, has been rerouted from Saturday’s $1.5 million Belmont Stakes to Sunday’s Grade 3, $400,000 Matt Winn Stakes at Ellis Park, trainer Ben Colebrook said Monday afternoon.
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National Treasure and Red Route One are both exiting the same race and are both trained by Hall of Fame horsemen, but their final works here Monday for Saturday's Belmont Stakes couldn't have been accomplished in a more diverse fashion.
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The three horses Bob Baffert intends to run here Saturday – National Treasure in the Belmont Stakes and Arabian Lion and Fort Bragg in the Grade 1 Woody Stephens – will be his first starters in New York since Rockefeller finished last in the Gotham Stakes at Aqueduct on March 5, 2022.