Belmont Park
Clearly Now eyes Forego next
Barbara D. Livingston Clearly Now sets a Belmont Park track record for seven furlongs of 1:19.96 in winning the Belmont Park Sprint Championship on Saturday.
ELMONT, N.Y. - Clearly Now, who set a track record for seven furlongs of 1:19.96 winning Saturday’s Grade 3, $400,000 Belmont Sprint Championship by 6 1/4 lengths, will be pointed to the Grade 1 Forego at Saratoga on Aug. 30, trainer Brian Lynch said Sunday. The Forego, like the Belmont Sprint, is run at seven furlongs.
“Certainly the Forego is the next spot for him,” Lynch said by phone from Canada. “That’ll probably be spot on for him. Then we’ll take it from there.”
Lynch said the key to Clearly Now is how he breaks, and after a couple of rough starts to begin the year, he got away from the gate cleanly on Saturday.