RACE 1: ENDOWED (#4)
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Belmont | Race 7 | Post Time 4:08 p.m. (ET) | Go to the TimeformUS PPs | Not already a TimeformUS member? Sign up
It’s getting frustrating, these short Saturday stakes fields. Santa Anita has two potentially nice races, but each drew a mere five entrants. Belmont’s feature, the Pennine Ridge, got only six in the field’s main body, no huge surprise since there’s a race in the same division the night before at Penn National and another on Saturday at Churchill Downs. Nonetheless, we’ll try to bob and weave our way into a decent-priced stakes winner or two.
Pennine Ridge
Belmont | Race 3 | Post Time 4:09 p.m. (ET) | Go to the TimeformUS PPs | Not already a TimeformUS member? Sign up
Each week in this space, the top Beyer performances by maiden winners will be featured and analyzed. Click here for a complete archive.
Forte
May 27, 1st race Belmont, MdSpWt90k
Beyer: 81
5f 58.21 – 1st by 7 3/4 lengths
b. c. 2, Violence – Queen Caroline, by Blame
Auctions: Keeneland November breeding 2020 – $80,000; Keeneland September yearling 2021 – $110,000
Owner: Repole Stable and St. Elias Stable
ALBAYAADER
Trainer: Jeff Mullins
Last race: May 27, race 1
Finish: 5th by 3
Beyer: 59
European import broke slowly in U.S. debut in maiden turf sprint, blocked length of lane, never had a chance to run. Call it inconclusive, would have been closer with clean trip.
HOTROD RIDE
Trainer: Sean McCarthy
Last race: May 27, race 8
Some horses run too poorly to believe, others run too good to lose. It happened in the same sprint stakes last week at Santa Anita and are the lead items in the first handicapping notebook of June . . .
Brickyard Ride had excuse
Surely there had to be a reason Brickyard Ride quit early in the Grade 2 Triple Bend Stakes on Sunday at Santa Anita. The 3-10 favorite after winning four successive stakes, Brickyard Ride caved at the quarter pole and finished fifth under Juan Hernandez. It turns out he had an alibi – an irritating quarter crack in a hind foot.