ELMONT, N.Y. – Owners Stanton Smith Jr. and Stella Smith might have been wearing the same huge smiles on Friday at Belmont Park even if their promising juvenile Our Braintrust hadn't snuck up the inside to upset the $150,000 Tremont Stakes. It was the Smiths’ 50th wedding anniversary, and they celebrated that as well as their latest stakes winner while hoisting the hardware. "Couldn't ask for a better present," Stanton Smith said, beaming, after kissing his wife following the trophy presentation. “To have an undefeated 2-year-old, a stakes winner at that? Over-the-top happy.” "And [the colt won] in very good company," Stella Smith added. "We were just thrilled." The Smiths have found themselves in good company as well, with the longtime owners and breeders teaming with trainer Cathal Lynch to solid success, campaigning horses such as graded stakes winner Javerre together in recent years. The Smiths and Lynch co-own Our Braintrust. "Cal's been our trainer since we started with homebreds," Stella Smith said. "[Stanton Smith and Lynch] went into partnership because they've always been such good friends." Our Braintrust ($23.40), who broke from the inside in the field of seven under Javier Castellano, was third with just more than a quarter-mile remaining in the Tremont. Meanwhile, Social Fan, who led through an opening quarter in 22.38 seconds, was holding onto a half-length lead over the favored filly Mae Never No but was beginning to fade. Mae Never No assumed command and quickened away to a 2 1/2-length lead in midstretch but could not maintain the advantage, with challengers looming on both sides. It was Our Braintrust, with Castellano finding room toward the rail, who finished strongest of all, taking command within the final sixteenth and edging clear to a three-quarter-length victory. He stopped the clock in 1:04.41 for the 5 1/2 furlongs. “He got dirt in the face and waited for a seam,” Castellano said. “The seam inside opened, and I got to the spot. He’s a very brave horse. You don’t see too many young horses do that the way he did that.” Sombeyay, who reared several times in the paddock and stumbled at the start, rallied from sixth at the midway point to be second, edging May Never No by three-quarters of a length. The filly held third by a half-length, leading home Sir Truebadour, Outshine, Girls Love Me, and the fading Social Fan. Our Braintrust, a Maryland-bred son of perennial leading New York sire Freud, was offered at last year's Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July selected yearling sale but did not meet his reserve, with a high bid of $27,000. Stanton Smith and Lynch tracked him to the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic fall yearling sale that October in Timonium, Md., and bought him for $25,000. "I had seen the horse in July in Lexington and didn't buy him then but wanted to," Stanton Smith said. There's no buyer's remorse. Our Braintrust won his debut May 3 at Laurel and has now earned himself the chance to move on against stakes company in this state. “He’s by a New York stallion, so he’s probably going to be coming up here for the New York series,” said Charlie Lynch, Cathal Lynch’s son and assistant. “He’s a nice horse, so we were taking our shot against some of the bigger horses to see what he can do. “I talked to Dad, and he’s so happy right now, he’s crying,” Charlie Lynch added.