Two-day, $141,055 pick six carryover adds to allure of Gold Cup card

ELMONT, N.Y. – Twenty-four hours before he was to send out Imperial Hint as a heavy favorite in the Grade 1 Vosburgh Stakes, trainer Luis Carvajal Jr. sent out Spectacular Plum to a 10-1 upset in an off-the-turf $40,000 claiming race at Belmont Park.

The significance of that victory was it resulted in a two-day pick six carryover of $141,055 into Saturday’s 11-race card at Belmont. Ironically, Imperial Hint will likely be a universal single in the Vosburgh, which goes as race 7 and is the second leg of the pick six..

Friday, Spectacular Plum ($22.80) turned back Long Gray Line and Hoard in the last race. The biggest key to the carryover was the victory by Benevolence ($65) as the 31-1 longest shot on the board in race 8.

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Saturday’s pick six will begin on race 6 (3:31 p.m. Eastern), a second-level allowance scheduled for the turf. Four of the six races in the sequence are scheduled for the turf including the Grade 1 Joe Hirsch Turf Classic and the Grade 3 Pilgrim Stakes. The last race on the card – and in the sequence – is an allowance scheduled for the turf.

All of Friday’s turf races were rained off to the main track. The forecast for Saturday is for dry conditions, but it remains to be seen if all seven scheduled turf races on the 11-race card will remain on the grass.

The two dirt races in the sequence are the Vosburgh and the Jockey Club Gold Cup.