Month: June 2023

Courtlandt Farms' General Jim will look to win his third straight graded stakes in Saturday's Grade 1, $400,000 Woody Stephens presented by Mohegan Sun, a seven-furlong sprint for sophomores at Belmont Park.

Trained by Hall of Famer Shug McGaughey, the Into Mischief colt made the grade in February in the seven-furlong Grade 3 Swale at Gulfstream Park, posting a one-length score over next-out stakes winner Super Chow.

General Jim followed last out with a gutsy neck score over returning rival Fort Bragg in a frantic finish in the Grade 2 Pat Day Mile on the Grade 1 Kentucky Derby undercard at Churchill Downs.

McGaughey and Hall of Fame jockey Pat Day enjoyed tremendous success through the years, particularly with fellow Hall of Famer Easy Goer, a nine-time Grade 1-winner and victor of one of the most memorable editions of the Belmont Stakes when besting arch-rival Sunday Silence in the 1989 renewal of the “Test of the Champion.”

“I was very thrilled with the win at Churchill. Pat Day is a special guy to me,” McGaughey said. “Early in my career, I think a lot of the success I had was attributed to him and his riding. He suited me and the way I like to do things very well. To be able to win the Pat Day Mile with a horse I like [was special]. To see those two horses [Fort Bragg and General Jim] hook up and run that hard together was a lot of fun.”

General Jim, through a record of 7-4-0-2 for purse earnings of $519,833, has endured some ups and downs in his brief career. A maiden win on turf at second asking in September at Saratoga was followed by a 3 1/4-length allowance win one month later on the Keeneland green. But he would falter as the favorite in the one-mile Central Park over firm footing in November at Aqueduct Racetrack.

The lack of finish at the Big A prompted the veteran conditioner and owner Donald Adam of Courtlandt Farms to move the talented bay back to the main track where he had finished third on debut in August at the Spa.

“I couldn't quite understand it,” said McGaughey of the Central Park effort. “It looked at the head of the stretch that he had everything under control. Mr. Adam said he'd like to try him back on the dirt, and I understood that. His races have been good since.”

General Jim endured traffic trouble next out in the stretch run of the one-mile Mucho Macho Man on New Year's Day at Gulfstream Park under regular rider Luis Saez, but was full value in his stalking score in the Swale.

“Saez came back and said, 'This horse is hard to figure because there's a lot more there,'” recalled McGaughey of the Mucho Macho Man effort. “So, I fiddled with him, gave him a little time, and he ended up running back good in the Swale.”

Fort Bragg got the jump on General Jim in the Pat Day Mile, surging to the lead after three-quarters and spinning the field into the stretch run. But Saez got to work aboard General Jim and made a six-wide move to collar Fort Bragg with a furlong to run and stayed on strong to secure the win in a final time of 1:34.43.

McGaughey said General Jim, who missed the Grade 2 Fountain of Youth in March at Gulfstream with a cough, benefitted from the break between starts.

“I gave him a little more time, which I think he needed, and then he ran good in the Pat Day Mile,” McGaughey said.

General Jim will exit post 4 on Saturday and the Hall of Fame trainer said he will let Saez map out a winning trip as the colt again shortens to seven furlongs.

“I think the cutback will be OK,” said McGaughey, who won this event on three occasions when it was known as the Riva Ridge from 1985-2005, scoring with Adjudicating [1990], Gold Fever [1996] and Coronado's Quest [1998]. “I think he has enough speed where when they break, he'll be able to put him where he wants to. He's got a good rider in Saez and I'm not worried about that.”

An $850,000 purchase at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale, General Jim, bred in Kentucky by Fifth Avenue Bloodstock and Centerline Breeding, is out of the stakes-placed Curlin mare Inspired by Grace, who is a full-sister to Grade 1-winner Off the Tracks and multiple graded-stakes winner Concord Point.

Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert, a two-time Woody Stephens winner, will saddle a pair of contenders in Fort Bragg [post 8, Joel Rosario] and Arabian Lion [post 3, John Velazquez].

SF Racing, Starlight Racing, Madaket Stables, Robert Masterson, Stonestreet Stables, Jay A. Schoenfarber, Waves Edge Capital and Catherine Donovan's multiple graded-stakes placed Fort Bragg will add blinkers as he looks to turn the tables on General Jim.

The $700,000 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Fall Yearling Sale purchase was third in the 1 1/16-mile Grade 2 Los Alamitos Futurity in December and opened his sophomore season with fifth-place finishes in the 1 1/16-mile Grade 2 San Felipe at Santa Anita in March and the Grade 1 Florida Derby in April at Gulfstream where he lunged at the break.

Last out, Fort Bragg, who is out of the stakes-winning New York-bred mare March X Press, overcame some bumping at the start of the Pat Day Mile before taking command and eventually acquiescing to General Jim in the final jump.

“He ran well. Het got away a little flat footed and just got beat there at the end,” Baffert said. “He got a really good trip, but he just got outrun. If he can bring that race back, it puts him right there.”

Zedan Racing Stables' graded-stakes placed Arabian Lion earned a field-best 103 Beyer Speed Figure last out with a gate-to-wire four-length score in the 1 1/16-mile Sir Barton on May 20 at Pimlico on the Preakness Day undercard.

That effort came on the heels of a pacesetting half-length loss to First Mission in the 1 1/16-mile Grade 3 Lexington in April at Keeneland.

“We were hoping he would do that the race before and he didn't,” said Baffert of the Sir Barton tour de force. “I think he's just learning and getting better and better.”

Baffert had initially considered Arabian Lion, by Baffert's 2018 Triple Crown-winner Justify, for the 12-furlong Grade 1 Belmont Stakes presented by NYRA Bets in the aftermath of the Sir Barton.

“I'm backing him up. If there was a mile race, it would be better for him but it's the Woody Stephens and it's a Grade 1,” Baffert said. “It will be a tough, competitive race. On the turnback, sometimes they run well. We'll send him back to two turns again after that.”

Arabian Lion, whose third dam is the McGaughey-trained Hall of Famer Personal Ensign, was purchased for $600,000 at the OBS Spring Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training.

Drew's Gold [post 13, Jose Gomez] is undefeated in four starts and will make his graded debut for trainer James Chapman, who co-owns the $25,000 Keeneland September Yearling Sale purchase in partnership with Stuart Tsujimoto.

The Violence ridgling has won at four different tracks, taking his debut last May at Churchill and returning to best winners in his seasonal debut in January at Laurel Park. Drew's Gold has made his most recent two outings in NYRA circuit stakes traveling six furlongs under Jose Gomez, scoring in the Jimmy Winkfield in February at the Big A and last out in the Gold Fever on May 12 over Big Sandy.

The multiple graded-stakes placed Gilmore [post 12, Irad Ortiz, Jr.] is trained by Brendan Walsh and owned by the same connections as Fort Bragg.

By Twirling Candy and out of the Henny Hughes mare My Surfer Girl, the $250,000 Keeneland September Yearling Sale purchase finished second in the nine-furlong El Camino Real Derby over the Golden Gate synthetic when in Baffert's barn.

Gilmore has made his last three starts for Walsh, including a runner-up effort in the seven-furlong Grade 3 Bay Shore in April at Aqueduct and a deep-closing effort last out to finish third in the Pat Day Mile.

“He's doing great. He's been progressive all year,” Walsh said. “I thought he ran a very good race in the Pat Day Mile and he's got to improve again to be competitive in the Woody Stephens, but I think he's on an upward curve. Hopefully, he'll show that on Saturday. The more pace, the better for him.”

Spendthrift Farm and Frank Fletcher Racing Operations stakes-winner Victory Formation [post 11, Florent Geroux] will return to one turn for the first time this year for trainer Brad Cox.

The $340,000 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale purchase won his first three career starts, capturing a pair of one-turn sprints in Kentucky last year before winning his seasonal debut around two turns in the one-mile Smarty Jones on January 1 at Oaklawn Park, where he bested next-out Grade 2 Risen Star-winner Angel of Empire.

Victory Formation was a distant ninth in the nine-furlong Risen Star in February at the Fair Grounds and landed a pacesetting third on his return last out in the nine-furlong Bath House Row when a half-length back of the victorious Red Route One, who will contest Saturday's Grade 1 Belmont Stakes.

“We gave him the opportunity around two turns after being successful in starting his career around one turn,” Cox said. “I'm hoping the cutback will propel him forward to where he'll be competitive in graded stakes. This is a Grade 1, so he'll need to take a move forward. He seems to be training well and I think he fits with the group.”

The Tapwrit colt, bred by Gainesway Thoroughreds, is a half-brother to the multiple graded stakes-placed turf mare Bellamore.

A competitive field also includes the graded-stakes placed Fort Warren [post 9, Sheldon Russell] for conditioner Brittany Russell; the undefeated Jorge Delgado-trained New York Thunder [post 1, Ricardo Santana, Jr.], who captured the six-furlong Woodstock last out over the Woodbine synthetic; the stakes-placed Gun Pilot [post 2, Tyler Gaffalione] for Hall of Fame trainer Steve Asmussen; stakes-placed Arman [post 5, Jose Ortiz] for trainer Peter Miller; Federal Judge [post 7, Flavien Prat], who is undefeated in two starts and makes his stakes debut for trainer Rodolphe Brisset; maiden winner Harrodsburg [post 6, Manny Franco], who earned a 99 Beyer at second asking when defeated a nose by older company in a 6 1/2-furlong allowance sprint here for trainer Rob Atras; and maiden winner Dark Vector [post 10, Javier Castellano], who makes his stakes debut for conditioner George Weaver.

The Woody Stephens is slated as Race 8 on Saturday's lucrative Belmont Stakes Day card. First post is 11:20 a.m. Eastern.

The FOX Sports family of networks will present expansive coverage and analysis of Belmont Stakes Day beginning with America's Day at the Races on FS1 at 11 a.m. Coverage then shifts to FOX, where America's Day at the Belmont and Belmont Day on FOX will air from 3-7:30 p.m.

America's Day at the Belmont Stakes will complement the FOX broadcast with parallel coverage geared to the avid and experienced horseplayer from 4-7:30 p.m. on FS1. For the complete broadcast schedule, visit https://www.nyra.com/belmont/racing/tv-schedule.

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Three-time Grade 1 winner Clairiere will face last year's Grade 1 Kentucky Oaks winner Secret Oath for the third time this season when seeking a repeat conquest of the Grade 1, $500,000 Ogden Phipps at Belmont Park.

The 55th running of the nine-furlong test for older fillies and mares is a Breeders' Cup “Win And You're In” qualifier for the Grade 1 Distaff in November at Santa Anita and has seen seven of its winners subsequently garner Championship honors, including Proud Delta [1976], Personal Ensign [1988], Sky Beauty [1994], Ashado [2005], Close Hatches [2014], Midnight Bisou [2019] and Letruska [2021].

Clairiere will attempt to join Heatherten [1984-85], Sightseek [2003-04] and Take D'Tour [2006-07] as back-to-back winners of the Ogden Phipps, while seeking to provide Hall of Fame trainer Steve Asmussen with his fourth win in the last five runnings of the event.

A homebred product of Barbara Banke's Stonestreet Stables, Clairiere has proven a force the past three seasons, earning Grade 1 wins during each campaign and amassing field-best earnings of $2,831,392 through a record of 18-7-5-3. Amongst her career highlights are capturing the Grade 1 Cotillion at Parx Racing in 2021, as well as defeating eventual Champion Older Dirt Female Malathaat in last year's Ogden Phipps, earning a career-best 106 Beyer Speed Figure.

The bay daughter of multiple Champion producing sire Curlin handed Malathaat, also a Stonestreet-bred Curlin filly, another defeat when they squared off in the next out Grade 2 Shuvee at Saratoga Race Course, before finishing a disappointing fifth as the favorite in the Grade 1 Personal Ensign.

She closed the curtain on her 4-year-old season with a dramatic three-horse photo finish in the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Distaff at Keeneland, where she finished third by a head behind the victorious Malathaat and runner-up Blue Stripe.

Now a 5-year-old, Clairiere is poised for another high-caliber season, which she kicked off with a runner-up effort to Secret Oath in the Grade 2 Azeri on March 11 at Oaklawn Park. She then turned the tables on Secret Oath in Oaklawn Park's Grade 1 Apple Blossom Handicap on April 15, furiously mowing down the 2022 Kentucky Oaks winner in deep stretch to win by a neck.

Clairiere's connections are hopeful that her season will end with Eclipse Award honors.

“She was a head away from it last year,” said Stonestreet Stables advisor John Moynihan. “She was very, very sound last year and she's always been sound. Steve has always thought she would get better every year she's been in training, and we expect her to continue on with the same form that she had last year. She may be even a little better this year than she was last year.”

Engaging in a rivalry last season with Malathaat, who was bred by Stonestreet and owned by Shadwell Stable, was sentimental for the Stonestreet team.

“For Barbara, she's loved it,” Moynihan said. “She's a homebred product of the Stonestreet program and what Barbara has put together. When she ran against Malathaat, it added a lot of fun for Barbara being at the races and to have had a hand in producing both of them.”

Clairiere is out of Stonestreet's multiple Grade 1-winning Bernardini mare Cavorting, who captured the 2016 Ogden Phipps for trainer Kiaran McLaughlin. At three, Cavorting did the bulk of her running in one-turn sprints and captured prominent events like the 2015 Grade 1 Test and Grade 2 Prioress at Saratoga before stretching out to two turns at four. Cavorting retired following a win in the 2016 Grade 1 Personal Ensign at Saratoga.

“Her mother ran there and won some big races in New York. Most of her resume was built in New York and Clairiere is doing the same thing. I know Barbara is very excited,” Moynihan said. “They both really like to win, but this is her first foal. There's obviously a lot of similarities, they've won and run in some of the same races and it's kind of a unique situation.

“As a 3-year-old we kept Cavorting at one turn. But Kiaran really thought she relaxed quite a bit as she got older,” Moynihan added. “She trained herself into races in the morning and put a lot into her training. As she turned into her 4-year-old year, she was a lot easier on herself in her training and he wanted to experiment and take her a little farther.”

Joel Rosario retains the mount aboard Clairiere from the outermost post 6.

Briland Farm's Kentucky homebred Secret Oath will be out for revenge following the Apple Blossom when she breaks from post 4.

Trained by legendary Hall of Fame horseman D. Wayne Lukas, Secret Oath has put together a record of 16-6-4-3 while banking $2,334,767 in earnings.

After handing Clariere a 2 3/4-length defeat in the Azeri, Secret Oath appeared poised for victory in upper stretch of the Apple Blossom under Tyler Gaffalione, but was thwarted by her rival in the final furlong. A daughter of Arrogate, she enters the Ogden Phipps off another neck defeat when second to returning rival Played Hard in the Grade 1 La Troienne on May 6 at Churchill Downs.

Lukas, who saddled previous Ogden Phipps winners Serena's Song [1996] and A Wild Ride [1991], said his only concern is how his filly will handle the Belmont surface, which she will race on for the first time on Saturday.

“It's a much different surface than at Oaklawn or Churchill or even Saratoga,” Lukas said. “She's such a good mover, I'm just hoping that she'll adapt to that deeper surface and show up. That's my only concern, but she's training great. The timing is good, she's fresh and ready to go.”

Tyler Gaffalione, aboard in all three of her starts this year, retains the mount aboard Secret Oath as she pursues her first Grade 1 triumph since the Kentucky Oaks.

“Tyler knows her a little better now and will ride her a little smarter than he did in some of those others,” Lukas said.

Klaravich Stables' Chad Brown-trained Search Results [post 2, Flavien Prat] will make her third straight appearance in a Grade 1 on the Belmont Stakes undercard.

The dark bay 5-year-old Into Mischief mare finished third in last year's Ogden Phipps and will be in pursuit of her first Grade 1 victory since capturing the 2021 Acorn here on Belmont Stakes Day. She has finished at least third in 12-of-13 lifetime starts, only missing the board in last year's Breeders' Cup Distaff when sixth beaten 10 lengths.

Search Results, a close second in the 2021 Kentucky Oaks, made her seasonal debut in the La Troienne, where she finished an even third beaten three-quarters of a length.

Brown expressed pleasure with the ground-saving effort, but said he would like to see her placed more toward the outside to launch her bid this time around.

“She didn't get a good trip last year. She's doing really well and she got a nice race that she needed in the La Troienne,” Brown said. “She was saving ground, which I like, but she never quite extracted herself off the rail to be outside in the stretch, which is where she might want to be. It was a good first race back and she seems to have moved forward off it.”

Rigney Racing's Played Hard [post 5, John Velazquez] provided trainer Phil Bauer with his first Grade 1 triumph when defeating Secret Oath in the La Troienne. The Into Mischief 5-year-old was making her first start since winning the Grade 3 Falls City at Churchill Downs in gate-to-wire fashion.

Played Hard rounded herself into graded stakes winning form last fall when capturing the Grade 3 Locust Grove at Churchill Downs before earning Grade 1 black type for the first time when third in Keeneland's Spinster.

Trainer George Weaver will saddle R.A. Hill Stable and Black Type Thoroughbreds' newly minted graded stakes winner Pass the Champagne [post 1, Feargal Lynch].

The 5-year-old Flatter mare enters off a victory in the Grade 2 Ruffian on May 6 at Belmont Park and will make her first start at Grade 1 level since finishing 12th-of-13 in the 2021 Kentucky Oaks. She earned Grade 1 black type when a close second to Malathaat in that year's Ashland.

Completing the field is five-time winner Gamestonks [post 3, Jean Alvelo] who enters off a Penn National allowance victory. The daughter of Blofeld is trained by Rodolfo Sanchez-Salomon.

The Ogden Phipps honors the late stockbroker, court tennis champion, horse owner, and Hall of Fame inductee, whose black and cherry cap silks have been synonymous with New York racing for over a half-century. Phipps owned and bred nine Champions including Hall of Famers Buckpasser, Personal Ensign, and Easy Goer.

In 2019, Phipps was posthumously elected to the Hall of Fame's Pillars of the Turf for his many contributions to racing. Previously run as the Hempstead Handicap, the race was renamed to pay homage to Phipps in 2003, one year after his death. Phipps' legacy is carried on today by grandchildren Ogden Phipps, II and Daisy Phipps Pulito, who manage Phipps Stable.

The FOX Sports family of networks will present expansive coverage and analysis of Belmont Stakes Day beginning with America's Day at the Races on FS1 at 11 a.m. Coverage then shifts to FOX, where America's Day at the Belmont and Belmont Day on FOX will air from 3-7:30 p.m.

America's Day at the Belmont Stakes will complement the FOX broadcast with parallel coverage geared to the avid and experienced horseplayer from 4-7:30 p.m. on FS1. For the complete broadcast schedule, visit https://www.nyra.com/belmont/racing/tv-schedule.

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Nearly one year to the day after beginning a superb six-race win streak with a fourth-out graduation for Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott, Juddmonte's Champion Sprinter Elite Power will look to continue his strong form in Saturday's Grade 2, $250,000 True North, a 6 1/2-furlong sprint for older horses, at Belmont Park.

This time last year, the chestnut was relatively unknown, making the fourth outing of his career in a seven-furlong maiden tilt at Churchill Downs. He made a strong impression in his first victory, defeating 10 rivals by nine lengths in a final time of 1:21.06. It would not take long for Elite Power to become a household name, as his maiden victory began a win streak that would lead to him being named the 2022 Champion Male Sprinter and enjoying a successful overseas trip to capture the six-furlong Group 3, $1.5 million Riyadh Dirt Sprint last out on February 25 at King Abdulaziz Racecourse.

Elite Power will see a touch of added ground in the True North for his first start since his dominant victory in the Riyadh Dirt Sprint. There, he rallied from off the pace under Frankie Dettori and showed his usual devastating turn of foot in the stretch to take command 200 meters from the finish and draw off under a hand ride.

Mott had considered bringing Elite Power back off his four-month layoff in the Grade 1, $1 million Hill 'n' Dale Metropolitan Handicap on the same day over Big Sandy, but opted to keep him sprinting after a long journey to Saudi Arabia and back.

“He seems to be doing well, but I wasn't confident I had him ready to go a mile at this point in the Met Mile,” said Mott. “He's traveled and had a bit of a layoff and we're bringing him back. I feel better about the six and a half than I do the mile.”

After his maiden coup last June, Elite Power successfully took on winners in a one-mile allowance with a 3 1/4-length win in June, and followed three months later with a similar effort going six furlongs at Saratoga Race Course and landing a 3 1/2-length score.

Elite Power stepped up in class next out to make his stakes debut in the Grade 2 Vosburgh in October at Belmont at the Big A. He made easy work of his four rivals in the seven-furlong test with a 5 3/4-length win, which awarded him a berth into the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Sprint at Keeneland. He made his next start there and posted a visually impressive 1 1/4-length triumph when rallying five-wide from seventh-of-11 in a bunched up field. He followed with his successful trip to Riyadh.

Elite Power has been assigned a field-high 124 pounds and will emerge from post 4 in rein to Irad Ortiz, Jr.

Godolphin's Kentucky homebred Strobe has never finished worse than second in six lifetime outings for two-time Eclipse Award-winning conditioner Brad Cox. The 4-year-old Into Mischief bay enters from a closing runner-up finish in his stakes debut in the Grade 3 Count Fleet Sprint Handicap on April 15 at Oaklawn Park, where he rallied from 3 1/2 lengths off the pace under regular pilot Florent Geroux and made to finish 2 1/4 lengths behind the victorious Skelly.

Three starts back, Strobe earned a 104 Beyer for a dominant pacesetting optional claiming coup in December at Fair Grounds Race Course and followed with a similar win in a third-level optional claimer in January that was awarded a 101 Beyer.

Cox said the bay colt has been a work in progress since making his first start last May.

“It's taken us a little time to get to this. His last run was in a graded stakes and he performed very, very well,” said Cox. “He may have needed that race, he hadn't run since January. I feel like he's coming into this race very, very well. It's obviously a very good race with Elite Power in there. I think he's ready for a big effort.”

Geroux [118 pounds] retains the mount from post 5.

Repole Stables' multiple graded stakes-winner Fearless [post 6, Luis Saez, 122 pounds] sees a significant cutback in distance from his last outing when a well-beaten seventh in the 12-furlong Grade 3 Greenwood Cup in September at Parx Racing. Trained by Hall of Famer Todd Pletcher, the consistent son of Ghostzapper will contest a sprint distance for the first time since a debut maiden score going six furlongs at Gulfstream Park in December 2019.

Pletcher said Fearless' abilities at this distance are likely pace dependent.

“It may prove to be a bit short, but hopefully there is a favorable pace scenario,” said Pletcher.

Fearless won the 2021 Grade 3 Harlan's Holiday as part of a successful campaign that winter racing from one-mile to nine furlongs at Gulfstream Park, where he when on to win the nine-furlong Grade 3 Ghostzapper and finished second going one-mile in both the Grade 3 Fred W. Hooper and Grade 2 Gulfstream Park Mile. He stretched out to win the 12-furlong Grade 2 Brooklyn here on the Belmont Stakes undercard before going even further in capturing the 1 3/4-mile Birdstone at Saratoga Race Course.

Reddam Racing's New York-bred Today's Flavor [post 1, Manny Franco, 118 pounds] makes another attempt at a graded sprint for conditioner George Weaver after finishing a pacesetting fourth, defeated 1 1/2 lengths, in the Grade 1 Carter Handicap presented by NYRA Bets in April at Aqueduct.

“He's maintained good form and trains well like he has for the last two months,” said Weaver. “We're looking forward to taking on a tougher race.”

The gelded son of Laoban, bred in the Empire State by Joseph Calvo, has gone 5-for-6 since joining Weaver's barn in November, including a strong four-race win streak that included a 6 1/2-length allowance coup against open company on February 18. He bounced back well from his Carter loss with a next-out win in the state-bred Affirmed Success on April 30 at the Big A, leading at each point of call to land a 3 1/2-length victory under returning rider Manny Franco.

Completing the field are trainer Davis Jacobson's graded stakes-placed Synthesis [post 2, Javier Castellano, 118 pounds], a last-out winner of a local seven-furlong allowance on May 18 that garnered a 104 Beyer; and Ilium Stables' Anarchist [post 3, Joel Rosario, 120 pounds], who enters from his first graded victory in the Grade 3 Jacques Cartier on May 14 at Woodbine.

The True North, carded as Race 3, is one of nine graded events slated for the June 10 card at Belmont Park, led by the Grade 1, $1.5 million Belmont Stakes presented by NYRA Bets in Race 12. First post on the 13-race card is 11:20 a.m. Eastern.

The FOX Sports family of networks will present expansive coverage and analysis of Belmont Stakes Day beginning with America's Day at the Races on FS1 at 11 a.m. Coverage then shifts to FOX, where America's Day at the Belmont and Belmont Day on FOX will air from 3-7:30 p.m.

America's Day at the Belmont Stakes will complement the FOX broadcast with parallel coverage geared to the avid and experienced horseplayer from 4-7:30 p.m. on FS1. For the complete broadcast schedule, visit https://www.nyra.com/belmont/racing/tv-schedule.

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