Belmont Park

Private Zone gets season going in Belmont Sprint Championship

David Grening|Jul 06, 2016

Barbara D. Livingston Private Zone is being pointed to the True North at Belmont Park on June 10.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Private Zone will finally get to make his 7-year-old debut in Saturday’s Grade 3, $500,000 Belmont Sprint Championship, a race he won last year.

Private Zone was entered in the Grade 2 True North on June 10 but had to scratch after trainer Brian Lynch surrendered his license after a failing a random drug test. Lynch has since been reinstated.

Private Zone has not raced since finishing fifth in the Grade 1 Cigar Mile last Nov. 28. He has been working extremely well and shows a trio of bullet works for his return. He will break from post 2 under Martin Pedroza.

Among the challengers are Joking, who upset the True North to give trainer Charlton Baker his first graded stakes victory, and A. P. Indian, the winner of the Don LeVine Memorial at Parx. Completing the field are Anchor Down, the runner-up in the Met Mile, Ready for Rye, Roxbury N Overton, Marking, Nubin Ridge, and Green Gratto.

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