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Sole Volante To Wheel Back In 10 Days For Belmont Stakes

Following a strong performance in an allowance race last Wednesday at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla., Sole Volante will run back in just 10 days to start in the Grade 1 Belmont Stakes, reports the Daily Racing Form. To be run this Saturday at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y., the Belmont will be the first leg of the 2020 Triple Crown due to sweeping schedule changes caused by the worldwide coronavirus pandemic.

Sole Volante, a 3-year-old son of Karakontie trained by Patrick Biancone, won the Grade 3 Sam F. Davis Stakes back in February before finishing second to King Guillermo in the G2 Tampa Bay Derby. The late-running colt is owned by Reeves Thoroughbred Racing and Andie Biancone.

Wednesday's allowance race saw Sole Volante fall back to the rear of the field, as much as 10 lengths off the pace, then close around the outside with a sustained bid and cross the wire a comfortable 3/4-length winner.

“His energy level is very high, very good,” Biancone said. “We gave him a prep for the Belmont, and he came out of it the way I was expecting. The only way you cannot win a race is if you don't run.”

Sole Volante will ship to New York on a Tuesday flight out of South Florida.

Read more at the Daily Racing Form.

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Blew’s Clues: Sole Volante A Gift Horse Who Keeps On Giving

Just 22 years old, Andie Biancone is living her dream in Thoroughbred racing.

Not only is she the assistant trainer for the successful stable of her father, Patrick Biancone, but she's co-owner of the graded-stakes winner and possible Belmont Stakes (G1) or Blue Grass (G2) starter Sole Volante.

Sole Volante, by Karakontie, was purchased by Patrick Biancone for $20,000 at the OBS April Sale in 2019 as a birthday present for his daughter.

After winning both of his starts last year on turf, Sole Volante finished third in the Mucho Macho Man Stakes in his dirt debut at Gulfstream on Jan. 4, then won the Grade 2 Sam F. Davis Stakes on Feb. 8 at Tampa Bay Downs. He then finished second to King Guillermo in the G2 Tampa Bay Derby on March 7 before returning to win an allowance race at Gulfstream last Wednesday, June 10.

Andie Biancone now races Sole Volante in partnership with Reeves Thoroughbred Racing.

Gulfstream host and analyst Jason Blewitt spoke to Andie Biancone for the latest edition of “Blew's Clues” about working and helping her dad, long trips in horse vans accompanying the stable's stars, and getting gifted Sole Volante by her father on her birthday.

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