Other than the fact that we probably need to upgrade our eyeglasses after identifying the horses in our Pick last week as colts, we had a heck of a Saturday when the fillies Quick Conversation and Crowding Out came home late to complete an exacta and trifecta—a couple of hours before Medina Spirit won the Kentucky Derby.
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The $1 Belmont Park pick six on races 6-11 Saturday includes four of the five stakes on the card. The Grade 3, $150,000 Runhappy is race 4 but the pick six begins with the Grade 3, $150,000 Beaugay and continues with the Grade 3, $150,000 Vagrancy Handicap (race 7), the Grade 3 $200,000 Peter Pan (race 9), and the Grade 1, $700,000 Man o’ War (race 10).
The pick six also includes a pair of maiden races for fillies and mares at 1 1/16 miles on the turf (races 8 and 11).
There is a pick-six carryover of $41,572 into the Saturday card.
Thu, 05/06/2021 - 14:46
It’s comeback day at Belmont.
Harvey’s Lil Goil, who closed out a bi-surface 3-year-old campaign with an excellent Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare turf third last fall, returns in the Grade 3 Beaugay. So does Civil Union, fifth in the Filly and Mare Turf, and Irish import Lemista, who bears the colors of Peter Brant and starts for trainer Chad Brown, potent circumstances for sure.
Those are all very nice horses, but the Grade 1 Man o’ War boasts a stronger field as the best race on a quiet Saturday of American racing, the exhalation after the Derby and before the Preakness.
Thu, 05/06/2021 - 12:25
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.
Flightline
April 24, 7th race Santa Anita, MdSpWt62k
Beyer: 105
6f 1:08.75, 1st by 13 1/2 lengths
b. c. 3, Tapit – Feathered, by Indian Charlie
ATOMIC DROP
Trainer: Phil D’Amato
Last race: April 30, race 1
Finish: 5th by 6 1/4
Beyer: 59
Stretch-out maiden got banged around at start, stirred up and sped to lead unrelaxed, hounded by rival, faded. Race was a toss. Follow in Cal-bred maiden route, turf or dirt.
Sun, 05/02/2021 - 11:36
Belmont | Race 8 | Post Time 4:40 p.m. (ET) | Go to the TimeformUS PPs | Not already a TimeformUS member? Sign up
I don’t have any major knocks against the favorites in this Ruffian, other than the fact that they’re going to be short prices in a race that I think is fairly competitive.
Once again the Red Sea parted. ROCK YOUR WORLD got crushed at the start. MIDNIGHT BOURBON wasn’t sent, despite intimations he would. Once again the trainer in North American racing who best understands how to use speed as a weapon, and how to train to win the Kentucky Derby – not to merely participate in the Derby – won America’s biggest race, using tactics that were a carbon copy of what happened last time this race was run, eight months ago.