Thoroughbred racing is a sport with no offseason, no time to rest on one’s laurels. That’s why Chad Brown was on a plane back to his barn at Belmont Park just hours after saddling his first classic winner, Preakness Stakes winner Cloud Computing. Meanwhile, Mike Ryan, whom Brown credited with discovering Cloud Computing, was hard at work back in Maryland, looking for the next star.

Conquest Mo Money, who was supplemented to the final two legs of the Triple Crown for $150,000 before he finished seventh in the Preakness, has been taken out of consideration for the Belmont Stakes and will run instead in the Grade 2, $500,000 Woody Stephens Stakes on the Belmont Stakes undercard June 10, co-owner Tom McKenna said Thursday.

ELMONT, N.Y. – While the focus of the Preakness Stakes was rightfully on the stretch duel between Cloud Computing and Classic Empire – as well as the disappointing finish by Kentucky Derby winner Always Dreaming – the performance of third-place finisher Senior Investment may have gotten overlooked.

Last of 10 approaching the top of the stretch, Senior Investment was spun widest of all by Channing Hill turning for home and closed very well to finish within 4 3/4 lengths of Cloud Computing.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. said it wasn’t easy to sit out the first two legs of this year’s Triple Crown. He had opportunities to ride the Kentucky Derby but turned them down to ride in New York that day and won two stakes. He did not have the opportunity to ride the Preakness, even though he had ridden Cloud Computing, the Preakness winner, in his previous start.

ELMONT, N.Y. -  As his counterpart Todd Pletcher did with Kentucky Derby winner Always Dreaming earlier this week, trainer Chad Brown on Sunday morning confirmed that Preakness winner Cloud Computing would skip the 149th Belmont Stakes on June 10. He will be pointed to the Grade 2, $600,000 Jim Dandy at Saratoga on July 29.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - Trainer Jorge Navarro worked Sharp Azteca six furlongs at Monmouth Park on Sunday. He worked War Story six furlongs Saturday. Both horses will be headed to New York this week to finish their preparations for races on Belmont Stakes Day.

Sharp Azteza, most recently third in the $1 million Godolphin Mile, is being pointed to the Grade 1 Metropolitan Handicap. War Story, who was beaten a half-length last out when third in the Charles Town Classic, is targeting the Grade 2 Brooklyn Invitational.

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ELMONT, N.Y. – Nearly 250 horses found their way onto the work tabs over the Belmont Park main and training tracks on Saturday, three of whom – Meantime, Patch, and Tapwrit – are likely to find themselves in the starting gate two weeks down the road in the Belmont Stakes.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Having confirmed that Kentucky Derby winner Always Dreaming will skip the Belmont Stakes and return this summer, trainer Todd Pletcher on Saturday began focusing on the third leg of the Triple Crown with Tapwrit and Patch, his two potential starters for the 149th Belmont on June 10.

On Saturday at Belmont Park, both Tapwrit, sixth in the Kentucky Derby, and Patch, 14th in the Derby, put in workouts over the training track.

ELMONT, N.Y. – The band is getting back together.

Last year, trainer Steve Asmussen tabbed Irad Ortiz Jr. to ride Creator in the Belmont Stakes, and the locally based rider gave the horse a flawless ride to beat Destin by a nose. On Friday, Asmussen confirmed that Ortiz will ride Kentucky Derby runner-up Lookin At Lee in the 149th Belmont Stakes on June 10.

Ortiz replaces Corey Lanerie, who rode Lookin At Lee in the Derby and to a fourth-place finish in the Preakness.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Classic Empire returned to training for the first time since his gutsy runner-up finish in last weekend’s Preakness by jogging around the Churchill Downs oval early Friday morning under the watchful eye of Norman Casse.

“He was great,” said Casse, assistant to his father, trainer Mark Casse.