Santa Anita
Flavien Prat planning Belmont stint
Barbara D. Livingston Santa Anita's leading jockey Flavien Prat plans to ride at Belmont Park later this month.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Flavien Prat, the leading rider at the spring-summer meeting at Santa Anita, will ride at Belmont Park in late June and early July, according to his agent, Derek Lawson.
Prat is expected to ride Toinette in the Grade 1 Belmont Oaks on July 7 and could ride Moonshine Memories in the Grade 3 Victory Ride Stakes the following day.
Through Sunday, Prat had 29 wins at the meeting, five more than Joe Talamo and Geovanni Franco, who were tied for second. Earlier this year, Prat was second to Evin Roman in the standings at the winter-spring meeting. Roman had 46 wins, one more than Prat.
