As previously noted a few times in this space, I’m a big fan of what the New York Racing Association has created over the last few years with Belmont Stakes Day. I do have issues with the NYRA overloading some other Saturdays of the Belmont spring meet with stakes, leaving slim pickings on other days that should be better than they are. I mean, I’m still trying to get why three graded stakes were run at Belmont on May 6, four were run on May 13, and five will be run on July 8, yet the Memorial Day program didn’t have a single graded event.
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ELMONT, N.Y. - Neither Take These Chains nor Conquest Babayaga has ever lost while in the care of trainer Chad Brown.
That is likely to change Thursday as Take These Chains and Conquest Babayaga were two of 11 horses entered Saturday for Thursday’s Grade 3, $250,000 Intercontinental Stakes. The Intercontinental is one of three stakes on a nine-race program that begins at 2 p.m.
Thursday is the first day of what the New York Racing Association bills as a three-day Belmont Stakes Racing Festival, which concludes with the Belmont Stakes card June 10.
Belmont Park
Weather: Cloudy
Track: Fast
Temp.: 57
ELMONT, N.Y. - A couple of new faces to this year’s Triple Crown, Meantime and Twisted Tom, put in their final works for the Belmont Stakes on Saturday, both working after the renovation break over a main track that seemed to have tightened up a bit following a brief shower that passed through shortly after 7:30 a.m.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Epicharis, the intriguing Japanese challenger in the Belmont Stakes, was released from quarantine shortly after 11:30 a.m. on Saturday and went straight to the training track at Belmont Park, where he had a private training session under the watchful eye of trainer Kiyoshi Hagiwara.
ARCADIA, Calif. – Gormley, the Santa Anita Derby winner who most recently was ninth in the Kentucky Derby, worked seven furlongs in 1:26.20 on Saturday at Santa Anita in preparation for a potential start in the Belmont Stakes in one week, but trainer John Shirreffs said he still needed to mull things over for the next couple of days before deciding whether to run.
ELKTON, Md. – Trainer Graham Motion said Saturday that he is inclined to run Irish War Cry in the Belmont Stakes after the horse worked to his liking earlier in the morning at the Fair Hill Training Center here but added that a decision would come after he consults with owner Isabelle de Tomaso.
Irish War Cry, the winner of the Wood Memorial who is coming off a 10th-place finish in the Kentucky Derby, went six furlongs in company with the older horse Ascend. Irish War Cry worked on a fast dirt track and covered the distance in 1:14, according to staff members of Fair Hill.
ELMONT, N.Y. – Meantime and Twisted Tom, who figure to be two of the longer-priced horses in the 149th Belmont Stakes on June 10, put in their final workouts Saturday morning over Belmont’s main track for the third leg of the Triple Crown.
Meantime, the runner-up in the Grade 2 Peter Pan at Belmont on May 14, went five furlongs in 1:01.59, per Daily Racing Form clocker Mike Welsch, who caught Meantime in fractions of 25.36 seconds for the first quarter and 36.79 for three furlongs and had him galloping out six furlongs in 1:14.95.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – A pair of Belmont Stakes contenders, J Boys Echo and Multiplier, were sent through final prerace works for the 1 1/2-mile classic just minutes apart Saturday morning at their respective Kentucky bases.
J Boys Echo went five furlongs in a minute flat at Churchill Downs shortly after Multiplier went a half-mile in 48.60 seconds at Keeneland. Both came amid perfect spring weather and over fast racetracks.
Belmont Park
Weather: Clear
Main track: Fast
Temp.: 65
ELMONT, N.Y. – With less than half the prospective lineup for the Belmont Stakes on the grounds as of Friday, prerace workouts have been few and far between here. That made the appearances of Patch and Tapwrit noteworthy when the Todd Pletcher-trained stablemates walked onto the main track to breeze in company shortly before 9 a.m. on a picture-perfect Friday at Belmont Park.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Classic Empire, the likely favorite for the 149th Belmont Stakes next Saturday at Belmont Park, was sent through his only serious move leading into the third jewel of the Triple Crown, breezing a half-mile in 50 seconds early Friday over a fast Churchill Downs surface.