Rock Your World, the Santa Anita Derby winner who was 17th in the Kentucky Derby on May 1, worked five furlongs in 1:01 on Friday at Santa Anita for a potential start in the Belmont Stakes on June 5 at Belmont Park.

The workout was the first for Rock Your World since the colt was the 9-2 second choice in a field of 19 in the Kentucky Derby, but encountered trouble early in the race and was beaten 24 1/2 lengths by Medina Spirit.

Rock Your World races for Hronis Racing and Michael Talla and trainer John Sadler.

Hot Rod Charlie, third by a length behind Medina Spirit in the Kentucky Derby on May 1, jogged at Santa Anita on Friday, beginning preparation for an expected start in the Grade 1 Belmont Stakes on June 5.

“Well jog for another day or two, and when he gives us the signal he wants to do more, we’ll start galloping,” trainer Doug O’Neill said.

O’Neill said the Belmont Stakes is “the plan as long as he tells us he’ll be ready for it.”

ELMONT, N.Y. – Promise Keeper and Overtook give trainer Todd Pletcher a complementary one-two punch in Saturday’s Grade 3, $200,000 Peter Pan Stakes at Belmont Park, the local stepping-stone to the Belmont Stakes, to be run here June 5.

In Promise Keeper, Pletcher sends out a horse who will likely be forwardly placed in the field of six, which could reduce to five if trainer Chad Brown opts to run potential Peter Pan favorite Risk Taking in the Preakness on May 15.

Rock Your World, the winner of the Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby on April 3 but a troubled 17th in the Kentucky Derby last Saturday, is a candidate for the Grade 1 Belmont Stakes on June 5, depending on how he trains in coming weeks.

“The only definite is he’s out of the Preakness,” trainer John Sadler said of the May 15 race at Pimlico. “We’ll look at the Belmont.”

A limited number of tickets for the June 5 Belmont Stakes will go on sale to the public beginning Thursday at 10 a.m. via Ticketmaster.com, the New York Racing Association announced in a press release Tuesday.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Todd Pletcher’s quartet of starters from the Kentucky Derby as well as his Kentucky Oaks winner Malathaat were all expected to arrive at Belmont Park on Monday afternoon. Pletcher will monitor their training over the next week and talk with connections to see if any – or more likely how many – may show up in the Belmont Stakes on June 5.

If a horse based in Japan wins the Belmont Stakes, the horse’s connections will earn a $1 million bonus, the New York Racing Association announced Thursday.

This same bonus had been in effect from 2017 through 2019 but was not offered last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

A broadcast of the Belmont Stakes on Saturday on NBC drew 4 million viewers at its peak, when Tiz the Law won the race, according to network officials.

This year’s Belmont Stakes was billed as the first leg of the Triple Crown, due to the rescheduling of the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes to this fall. The broadcast was advertised extensively by NBC and its sister networks in the week leading up to the race. It was run at 1 1/8 miles, rather than its traditional distance of 1 1/2 miles, and had a post time of 5:45 p.m. Eastern, roughly one hour earlier than usual.

ELMONT, N.Y. – After Tiz the Law drew away from his nine rivals to win Saturday’s $1 million Belmont Stakes by 3 3/4 lengths, trainer Barclay Tagg and his assistant Robin Smullen quietly left the box seats from where they had watched and walked down to the winner’s circle.

There were no high-fives or fist bumps, just a few congratulatory pats on the back.

Gamine stole the show on Belmont Stakes Day by devastating the field in the Grade 1 Acorn Stakes by 18 3/4 lengths, earning a Beyer Speed Figure of 110. Her time for the mile was 1:32.55, a stakes record and just off Najran’s track record of 1:32.24, set in 2003.