ELMONT, N.Y. – When Resilient Courage upset Sunday’s first race, it gave trainer David Donk his ninth win at the Belmont Park spring/summer meet, putting him in a tie for seventh in the standings. Thursday, Donk has five runners in four races – including a pair of two-time winners already here this meet – on Belmont’s nine-race program. First post is 3 p.m. Donk starts the card with On Palm Sunday, a second-time starter running at the same level – maiden $40,000 claimer – in which he ran fifth on debut. The difference is Thursday’s race is 1 1/16 miles, compared to six furlongs; Donk is replacing Luis Cardenas with Irad Ortiz Jr.; and he’s adding blinkers to the 3-year-old gelding’s equipment. :: Play Belmont with confidence: Get DRF Past Performances, Picks, Clocker Reports, and Betting Strategies. “His pedigree suggests he’ll stretch out,” Donk said. “He was very green his first effort, has trained well since. The blinkers, I think he needs them for focus. He’s useful there. He could go forward off his first effort. He’ll need to, but I think he can.” In race 5, a New York-bred second-level allowance/optional $45,000 claimer at 1 1/8 miles on turf, Donk runs Out of Sight, who has already won twice here this meet. Out of Sight will be stepping up in class and stretching out in distance after winning a maiden race going a mile on May 12 and a first-level statebred allowance at 1 1/16 miles on May 30. Out of Sight, a 4-year-old daughter of Not This Time, has two wins and two seconds from four starts since Donk added blinkers to her equipment last fall. “She’s in great form,” Donk said. “I thought it was an even better effort last time – she kicked on. I think she’ll appreciate more ground, so we’re looking forward to running her a mile and an eighth, which is something we don’t get to do at Belmont that often.” Pop the Bubbly, who beat Out of Sight here last September, and Marvelous Maude are the two main threats to Out of Sight. In race 8, an open-company multi-conditioned allowance turf sprint, Donk sends out Big Package and Yes and Yes. In April, Big Package finished seventh of 10 in the Elusive Quality Stakes coming off a six-month layoff. Donk said Big Package came out of the race sick, which may have explained the poor effort. “I thought it was a big excuse,” Donk said. “I had a lot of horses get sick in the barn. He’s come back and seemed to have gotten healthy and is doing well. He always needs pace. He has a good turn of foot when he gets some pace.” Yes and Yes is 2 for 2 since Donk was given the horse by Phil Gleaves, who retired from training last year and is part-owner of this 6-year-old gelding by Sidney’s Candy. In his last race, Yes and Yes had to steady in midstretch and re-rallied to edge Soulmate and Artemus Citylimits in a seven-furlong allowance two weeks ago at Belmont. “I wasn’t sure that I’d run back here, but he’s doing so well,” Donk said. “He seems to really like Belmont, so why not? We’re gonna go to Saratoga soon and it’s a bit of a concern up there the different configurations of the turf courses. How good is he? I’m not sure, but he’s done it pretty handy both starts.” Principled Stand, coming off a second-level allowance win, is cutting back from a mile to six furlongs for Chad Brown. Pulsate, second in three consecutive stakes to end his 5-year-old season, makes his 6-year-old debut for trainer Robert Ribaudo. Pulsate is 0 for 7 with four seconds over Belmont’s turf. :: Bet the races on DRF Bets! Sign up with code WINNING to get a $250 Deposit Match, $10 Free Bet, and FREE DRF Formulator.   Thursday’s card closes with a maiden $25,000 claimer on dirt where Donk sends out Devil Or Angel. The 3-year-old gelding is dropping in for a tag for the first time after going winless in five statebred maiden special weight tries, four of them on turf. He gets Lasix for the first time. “His best race was his first race last year and he’s never come back to it,” Donk said. Donk was disappointed by his seventh-place finish off a six-month layoff on May 21, which is why he’s dropping him in class. “It was a poor effort off the layoff,” Donk said. “He didn’t seem to handle the grass at all. He’s not a maiden special weight horse. He’s in the right spot if he’s gonna do” anything.