Trainer Jason Servis worked Maximum Security on Sunday at Monmouth Park, his second serious piece of exercise since the Kentucky Derby.

In typical Servis style, Maximum Security two-minute licked a mile and then galloped out an extra furlong. The Monmouth Park clockers did not credit him with an official workout.

On May 22, in his first work since the Derby, Maximum Security went through a similar exercise regimen, with clockers giving him a time of 53.80 seconds for the final four furlongs of his first mile.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Two by two by two by two they went, one pair starting off slowly just as another was finishing fast, millions and millions of dollars of Chad Brown-trained horseflesh working on the Belmont Park turf course Sunday morning.

Five of the eight horses race here Saturday on the Belmont Stakes undercard: Rushing Fall starts in the Grade 1 Just A Game, and four others – Bricks and Mortar, Olympico, Raging Bull, and Robert Bruce – go in the Grade 1 Manhattan.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Trainer Bill Mott was watching a handful of horses complete workouts on the Belmont Park training track Sunday morning when jockey Jose Ortiz walked up to stand alongside him. Mott and Ortiz exchanged their thoughts on what had happened about an hour earlier on the main track when Ortiz guided the Mott-trained Tacitus through his final workout in preparation for Saturday’s $1.5 million Belmont Stakes.

Belmont Park
Saturday, June 1, 2019
Weather: Clear 
Temperature:  67   
Track: Fast

ELMONT, N.Y. – Conditions were about as perfect as they could get on the main track when Spinoff, Intrepid Heart and Tax turned in their final major preps for the Belmont Stakes following the renovation break shortly before 9:00 a.m. Saturday at Belmont Park.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Newspaperofrecord, who suffered her first defeat in the Grade 3 Edgewood Stakes at Churchill Downs last month, will be heavily favored to make amends in Thursday’s Grade 3, $200,000 Wonder Again Stakes at Belmont Park.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Trainer Danny Gargan was hoping to see a little more from Tax than he did in a Saturday morning workout at Belmont Park and now the Withers winner’s status for the $1.5 million Belmont Stakes is in limbo.

Los Alamitos received approval from the California Horse Racing Board on Friday to reduce its upcoming summer meeting from 12 racing days to 10 in an effort to ensure all programs draw sufficient horses, track vice-president Jack Liebau said.

Los Alamitos will open its three-week summer meeting on Saturday, June 29, two days later than scheduled. There will be two days of racing on June 29-30, and four-day racing weeks from July 4-7 and 11-14.

“It’s a done deal,” Liebau said. “I think this will work.”

ARCADIA, Calif. – Roger Stein, a retired trainer who was well known as the host of a long-running racing radio program, died Friday following a lengthy illness, according to his brother Rick Stein.

Roger Stein was 65. He died at his home in Hidden Hills, Calif.

ELMONT, N.Y. – In addition to running War of Will and Sir Winston in the Belmont Stakes, trainer Mark Casse will have plenty of other action to keep him busy during the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival, which consists of 18 stakes over three days beginning Thursday.

ELMONT, N.Y. – The Grade 1, $700,000 Ogden Phipps will be the toughest test of Come Dancing’s career, but if her workout Friday morning is any indication, she seems well prepared for it.

Come Dancing waltzed six furlongs in 1:11.63 over the Belmont Park training track, with a final quarter of 23.91 seconds. She galloped out seven furlongs in 1:26.09, according to Daily Racing Form clocker Mike Welsch. It was her last serious move prior to the Phipps, one of eight Grade 1 stakes to be run June 8 at Belmont.