Belmont Stakes 6/10

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Belmont Stakes possible starters:

Classic Empire (Casse)
Cloud Computing (C. Brown)
Conquest Mo Money (Hernandez)
Epicharis (Hagiwara)
Gormley (Shirreffs)
Irap (O'Neill)
Irish War Cry (Motion)
J Boys Echo (Romans)
Lookin at Lee (Asmussen)
Meantime (Lynch)
Multiplier (Walsh)
Patch (Pletcher)
Senior Investment (McPeek)
Tapwrit (Pletcher)
True Timber (McLaughlin)
Twisted Tom (C. Brown)

I expect Cloud Computing to pass on Belmont and train towards Dandy and Travers
Always Dreaming (Pletcher) has decided to skip Belmont and train for summer campaign
McCracken (Wilkes) will be running in G3 Matt Winn on 6/17 @ CD
 
from Condition Book:

6/10
R1 Alw 1 1/16
R2 Alw Optional Claiming 7F
R3 G3 Jaipur 6F (T)
R4 G2 Brooklyn 1 1/2
R5 G2 Woody Stephens 7F
R6 G1 Acorn 1M
R7 G1 Ogden Phipps 1 1/16
R8 G1 Just A Game 1 Mile (T)
R9 G1 Met Mile 1 Mile
R10 G1 Manhattan 1 1/4 (T)
R11 G1 Belmont Stakes 1 1/2
R12 Easy Goer 1 1/16
R13 Alw Optional Claiming 1 1/8 (T)
 
Play2win said:
from Condition Book:

6/10
R1 Alw 1 1/16
R2 Alw Optional Claiming 7F
R3 G3 Jaipur 6F (T)
R4 G2 Brooklyn 1 1/2
R5 G2 Woody Stephens 7F
R6 G1 Acorn 1M
R7 G1 Ogden Phipps 1 1/16
R8 G1 Just A Game 1 Mile (T)
R9 G1 Met Mile 1 Mile
R10 G1 Manhattan 1 1/4 (T)
R11 G1 Belmont Stakes 1 1/2
R12 Easy Goer 1 1/16
R13 Alw Optional Claiming 1 1/8 (T)
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2nd best day in racing in my opinion behind Breeders Cup Saturday, have gone out there the last 3 years but decided to skip it this year and watch and bet from home
 
[FONT=&quot]From nyra.com:

Carrot Farm's UAE Derby runner-up Epicharis[FONT=&quot] is one step closer to his bid in the Grade 1, $1.5 million Belmont Stakes on June 10, emerging from his Wednesday breeze in good order and entering isolation on Thursday in Japan, according to trainer Kiyoshi Hagiwara.[/FONT][/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]The Japanese-bred colt by Gold Allure, a son of the legendary 1989 Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Sunday Silence, was moved on Thursday to the quarantine barn at the JRA Miho Training Center to begin his weeklong isolation in Japan before shipping to North America. Epicharis is scheduled to arrive at Belmont Park on June 1, a roughly 24-hour trip from Miho, located in the Ibaraki Prefecture.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]On Wednesday, Epicharis worked five furlongs over the uphill woodchip course in 1:05.2 under assistant trainer Masaaki Minamida at the Miho Training Center. The horse was caught in splits of 12.6 seconds for the first eighth of a mile, 36.8 for three-eighths, and 50.7 for a half-mile, Hagiwara said.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]"I am pleased with his work," Hagiwara said. "He looks fine and he moved sharply. He has been doing well. Considering the long trip to Belmont via Anchorage and Chicago, I will give him one more timed work in Japan at the same course on Sunday and the last one will be at Belmont on Tuesday or Wednesday the week of the race."[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Epicharis was undefeated as a 2-year-old in his homeland, winning his first three starts in Japan by a combined 25 lengths. As a 3-year-old, Epicharis stamped himself a legitimate Triple Crown contender with a three-quarter-length victory in the Hyacinth at Tokyo in February and suffered the only loss of his budding career with a hard-fought second to Thunder Snow in the March 25 UAE Derby at Meydan Racecourse.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]A start in the Belmont Stakes will make Epicharis eligible for NYRA's $1 million bonus offered to any Japan-based winner of New York's most prestigious race. Introduced for the 2017 Triple Crown season, the entire $1 million bonus would be awarded to the winning Japanese horse's connections in addition to the $800,000 winner's share of the purse for the last and longest leg of the Triple Crown.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Additionally, Japanese wagering on the 1 ½-mile "Test of the Champion" has received final regulatory approval, making the 2017 Belmont Stakes the first U.S. Triple Crown event available for pari-mutuel wagering in Japan. Japanese wagering on the Belmont Stakes will be conducted through a separate, non-comingled pool. Post time for the Belmont Stakes is scheduled for 6:37 p.m. ET on Saturday, June 10 (7:37 a.m. JST on Sunday, June 11).[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Fox Hill Farm's Songbird is on target to make her 2017 debut in the Grade 1, $750,000 Ogden Phipps on the Belmont Stakes undercard on Saturday, June 10.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]The Ogden Phipps, a "Win and You're In" qualifier for the Longines Breeders' Cup Distaff November 3 at Del Mar, will mark Songbird's first start since finishing a hard-fought second in the Distaff last fall. Songbird, a 4-year-old daughter of Medaglia d'Oro, went 11-for-11 through her juvenile and sophomore seasons before suffering the first defeat of her career at the hands of three-time champion Beholder.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]The star filly has been working regularly at Hall of Fame trainer Jerry Hollendorfer's Santa Anita base since returning from a winter freshening at the end of January. Most recently, she worked six furlongs early Thursday morning under her regular jockey, Hall of Famer Mike Smith. The pair covered the distance in 1:13.80, the fastest of six at the distance.[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]"She went very well and galloped out well, so we're very pleased," said Hollendorfer. "Mike Smith was up and he's very happy with the way she's coming along. She's bigger than last year, she's put on weight, looks good. She's been training the same, she doesn't act any different that way. We're looking to try to have a good campaign with her."[/FONT]
 
Lloyd Braun said:
2nd best day in racing in my opinion behind Breeders Cup Saturday, have gone out there the last 3 years but decided to skip it this year and watch and bet from home
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Yeah...I'm not going this year either...the big days are too crazy at the track....will be a great card
 
From Nyra.com:

Trainer Todd Pletcher sent out Tapwrit and Patch, his two likely Belmont Stakes contenders, to the Belmont training track Saturday morning in preparation for the Grade 1, $1.5 million "Test of the Champion" on June 10.
Tapwrit, winner of the Grade 2 Tampa Bay Derby in March and sixth in the Kentucky Derby last time out, worked five furlongs in 1:02.25 shortly after 9:30 a.m. under his regular jockey Jose Ortiz, in company with 2015 Withers winner Far From Over. The pair galloped out in 1:16 2/5, according to NYRA clockers.
Earlier, Grade 2 Louisiana Derby runner-up Patch, a troubled 14th in the Derby, hit the track shortly after 7:45 a.m. The son of Tapit, who became famous during the run-up to the "Run for the Roses" as a rare one-eyed Derby contender, worked four furlongs in 50.24 seconds under Hall of Famer John Velazquez and in company with Outplay, a 3-year-old allowance winner.
"I thought Tapwrit worked well; he's not an overzealous workhorse but we got a good solid five-eighths into him on what I'd describe as a relatively slow training track," said Pletcher. "I thought it served its purpose and he seemed to work as he normally does. [Patch] worked fine. Neither horse are ones that overachieve in the mornings but they have that solid, grinding style that could suit the Belmont.
"Tapwrit, we're definitely planning to run and Patch, we'll wait and see how he works next week," he said.
Tapwrit kicked off his sophomore season with a second-place finish to McCracken in the Grade 3 Sam F. Davis at Tampa Bay Downs on February 11, where he returned four weeks later to post a 4 ½-length victory in the Tampa Bay Derby. He ventured to Keeneland for his final Derby prep for the Grade 2 Blue Grass, where he missed the break and finished fifth. In the Derby, Tapwrit broke from post 16 and was bumped and pushed back at the break and finished sixth.
"I thought Tapwrit ran great in the Derby," said Pletcher. "Everyone talked about the trouble at the start for Classic Empire, but he [Tapwrit] was the one that got clobbered first and it was a chain reaction from there. But I thought he closed pretty well and made a good account of himself. I think with a cleaner start, he would've hit the board."
Pletcher's likely pair for the Grade 1, $1.2 million Mohegan Sun Metropolitan Handicap, Rally Cry and Tommy Macho each worked five furlongs Saturday morning. Rally Cry, a 4-year-old colt by Uncle Mo, covered the distance in 1:01.66, while Tommy Macho went in 1:02.55. Sweet Loretta, on target for the Grade 1, $700,000 Acorn, worked a half-mile in :49.49.
 
From Nyra.com:

Silverton Hill's Grade 3 Peter Pan runner-up Meantime breezed Saturday morning for a possible run in the Grade 1 Belmont Stakes for trainer Brian Lynch.
Meantime, a speedy colt by 2011 Preakness winner Shackleford, worked five furlongs in company with Basic Hero, a 4-year-old maiden. The pair worked together through the first three-eighths, going 35 1/5 seconds, before Meantime pulled away from his workmate. He completed the work in 59.98 seconds under jockey Mike Luzzi, and galloped out six furlongs in 1:13, according to NYRA clockers.
"I saw what I wanted to see, it was a nice, comfortable work," Lynch said of the move. "Mike's body language was very relaxed, he just looked like a passenger. He didn't look like he had to ask him at any stage. I wanted to have someone following him a little bit so he can get used to getting put under a bit of pressure. Mike said he was totally relaxed in the work and did it totally in hand. He did it well within himself."
While under consideration for the Belmont, Lynch noted that Meantime is also eligible for the $150,000 Easy Goer on the June 10 Belmont Stakes undercard. Meantime is scheduled to breeze again next Saturday, said Lynch. He added that should Meantime run in the Belmont, Manny Franco is expected to have the mount.
"I'm not going to run in it just for the sake of running in it," he said. "We've got the Easy Goer that day too, so I want to be sure. His next work will really tell me. Up until then, I'm still on the fence."
Lynch also breezed 2016 Sovereign Award Champion Sprinter Noholdingback Bear and Grade 2 Raven Run winner Lightstream five furlongs in company for their respective Belmont Stakes Racing Festival assignments.
Noholdingback Bear, on target for the Grade 2, $250,000 True North, broke off ahead of Lightstream, aimed at the Grade 3, $250,000 Bed o' Roses Invitational. The pair covered three furlongs in 35 3/5 seconds and Lightstream drew ahead of her workmate to cover the distance in 59.77 under Javier Castellano.
Noholdingback Bear, who ran second to Stallwalkin' Dude in the Diablo on May 7, his first start for Lynch, went in 1:00.12.
"He's the ultimate professional, he doesn't do more than he has to," said Lynch. "I wanted to give Lightstream a target to run at because she's kind of been a one-run, come-from-behind filly. Last time, the big picture was getting a race back into him, letting him show us that we're on the right track with him. I think he's come on a lot from that race, and I think he'll probably put himself in the race a little earlier next time and not give himself as much work to do."
A 4-year-old filly by Harlan's Holiday, Lightstream won the seven-furlong Soaring Softly on the turf last year and followed up with a third-place finish in the Grade 1 Mother Goose at 1 1/16 miles on the dirt in her only two previous starts at Belmont. She made her first start of the year on a sloppy and sealed track Humana Distaff at Churchill Downs on the Kentucky Oaks undercard, where she finished fifth.
"She really needed her last start," said Lynch. "It was a tough group of really solid older mares and she probably wasn't 100 percent ready going in there and she caught a nasty off track. I don't think it suited her style; it was favoring speed horses that day, but she made a move and got tired the last part, but she came out of the race good. She had a really nice work the other day with Noholdingback Bear and then today, I thought that was really good.
"She sat off him and made a nice move up to him and Javier said he felt like he had plenty of horse under him and could've opened up on the gallop-out," he added. "I think she's back to showing one of her A-game races."


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Calumet Farm's True Timber is expected to run in the Grade 1 Belmont Stakes presented by NYRA Bets on June 10, trainer Kiaran McLaughlin said Saturday morning.
Reached by phone, McLaughlin said True Timber, who is currently stabled at Belmont Park, will be returning to graded stakes company after finishing third in the Sir Barton on May 20, Preakness Day, at Pimlico Race Course. True Timber was also being considered for the Easy Goer before being pointed towards the "Test of the Champion."
"We're looking at the Belmont right now," McLaughlin said. "It's three weeks off the Sir Barton, but we're OK with that. No one really knows about the mile-and-a-half but we'll find out on that day."
True Timber will be running on a NYRA track for the first time since a fourth-place effort in the Grade 2 Wood Memorial on April 8 at Aqueduct Racetrack. The son of Mineshaft's best graded-stakes finish was a runner-up effort in the Grade 3 Withers on February 4 at the Big A. McLaughlin said he won't put the Kentucky bred through a vigorous work before the Belmont.
"He'll just work a half-mile a week out and we'll go from there," he said.
Shadwell Stable's Mohaymen is expected to breeze on Sunday at Belmont Park in preparation for the Met Mile on Belmont Stakes Day.
"He'll work tomorrow, I'm planning on working him behind two horses, and we'll see how it goes," McLaughlin said.
Mohaymen is coming off a fourth-place effort in the Grade 3 Westchester on May 6 on Big Sandy. That marked his 2017 debut after a 2016 campaign in which he won the Grade 2 Holy Bull and Fountain of Youth and finished fourth in the Kentucky Derby and Grade 2 Jim Dandy.
"He's doing well, he came out of his last race great," McLaughlin said. "We were disappointed with the result, but he just needed to run and we're hoping he's improved."
Dickinson is training in Saratoga in preparation for the Grade 1, $700,000 Longines Just a Game, also slated for Belmont Stakes Day. The 5-year-old Medaglia d'Oro mare has been training "very well" at Greentree Training Center, according to McLaughlin, and will be looking for her fourth straight victory after capturing the Grade 3 Suwannee, Grade 2 Hillsborough and Grade 1 Jenny Wiley.
Overall, Dickinson has won five of her last six starts. McLaughlin said she could ship to Belmont as soon as Wednesday.
 
Official Graded Stakes Order

R3 G2 Brooklyn 1 1/2
R4 G1 Acorn 1M 3yo
R5 G1 Ogden Phipps 1 1/16
R6 G3 Jaipur 6F (T)
R7 G2 Woody Stephens 7F 3yo
R8 G1 Just A Game 1 Mile (T)
R9 G1 Met Mile 1 Mile
R10 G1 Manhattan 1 1/4 (T)
R11 G1 Belmont Stakes 1 1/2 3yo
 
Saturday Wagering menu
DON'T FORGET - 2 day daily double wagers for the New York/Met Mile and Belmont Cup/Belmont Stakes

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Friday's all-stakes pick 4 is pretty good (Races 8-11)

Race 8 True North 6f dirt - looks like plenty of pace signed on with Chief Lion, Green Gratto, Holy Boss and El Deal all capable of sub 45 for the half. Table should be set nicely for Whitmore and Stallwalkin' Dude to pick everyone off and battle it out late. Noholdingback Bear was stuck going wide in the Diablo trying to chase the Dude, could be sneaky at a square price.

Race 9 New York 1 1/4M turf - Suffused for Mott and Sea Calisi and Dacita for Chad Brown have the class edge, but all 3 need a good pace to run at. Hawksmoor might be the only speed in the race and has some talent, may need to use on a backup ticket. Quidura is lightly raced, gets Javier on board and was OK in the Jenny Wiley in her 2017 debut. And I haven't even mentioned the daughters of Galileo, Kittens Joy and Artie Schiller in the mix. Really strong group.

Race 10 Gold Cup 2M turf - Not surprising this invitational is loaded with European distance runners. Wall of Fire, Wicklow Brave and Now We Can look like the top tier, but Clondaw Warrior, St. Michel and Red Cardinal have their positive aspects. US runner Renown looks interesting coming off three straight 12 furlong wins, should be a price.

Race 11 Bed o' Roses 7f dirt - By The Moon looks like the top speed in the race, could send the rest on a merry chase, has a great record at Belmont. If she gets pressured there are several that can win. Quezon is 4 for 8 at Belmont and 2 for 2 at the distance. Lightstream drops down from her usual Grade 1 and 2 competition to fit in here. Indulgent, High Ridge Road and even Tale for Ruby all have races that would make them competitive.
 
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Field of 12 drawn for the Test of Champions with Classic Empire being a late scratch. Wide open race.

1 Twisted Tom (J. Castellano) 20-1
2 Tapwrit (J. Ortiz) 6-1
3 Gormley (V. Espinoza) 8-1
4 J Boys Echo (R. Alvarado) 15-1
5 Hollywood Handsome (F. Geroux) 30-1
6 Looking At Lee (I. Ortiz Jr.) 5-1
7 Irish War Cry (R. Maragh) 7-2
8 Senior Investment (C. Hill) 12-1
9 Meantime (M. Smith) 15-1
10 Multiplier (J. Rosario) 15-1
11 Epicerais (C. Lemaire) 4-1
12 Patch (J. Velazquez) 12-1
 
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Pretty important stuff on the Belmont Stakes regarding Epicharis from today's official NY vet report: (link: [url]https://www.gaming.ny.gov/pdf/06.07.17.BelmontStakes.pdf.pdf) gaming.ny.gov/pdf/06.07.17.B…[/URL].
 
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Pretty important stuff on the Belmont Stakes regarding Epicharis from today's official NY vet report: (link: https://www.gaming.ny.gov/pdf/06.07.17.BelmontStakes.pdf.pdf) gaming.ny.gov/pdf/06.07.17.B….
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good find, thanks for sharing. I wouldn't have been surprised if he went off the favorite with the CE defection
 
ephicharis last workout was a disaster as well. 5F 1:06, and it was a true struggle. Was not moving well at all, and was asked to go around the turn while looking like a 5k claimer. Was once near top of my ticket, will not be off the tri.
 
YoungGun11 said:
Tough defeat as you were sitting on a good one. Only way someone has that 12 with a 4%trainer first out is by following Ortiz who is 22% with that trainer.
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He is a full brother to Orb so certainly had the pedigree, if it wasn't Shug training he would have been on my tciket
 
Don't know what was expected out of that horse but Johnny V gave it a poor ride
 
Was that you calling that Corgi race at Canterbury YG? Just saw the clip, Logan Handsomepants had an agenda, that was unreal
 
New York (R9)/Met Mile Double: #1,2,6/12
Gold Cup Invitational (R10)/Belmont Double: #3,4,11,12/2,3
 
Seeing this more and more and I don't know what these jocks are thinking, you can't let a horse that slow and loose on the lead on the turf, the hold fests are getting out of hand, 49.72 first half with a 2 length lead
 
11:35 ET post tomorrow for 13 race card...

I'll be around tonight if anyone wants to go over any of the races
 
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