- Champion Classic Empire, fourth in the Grade 1 Kentucky Derby and second in the Grade 1 Preakness Stakes, is scheduled to begin his preparations for the final leg of the Triple Crown with a May 26 jog at Churchill Downs.
- Following the Grade 1 Belmont Stakes on June 10, Classic Empire is expected to target Monmouth Park's Grade 1 Haskell Invitational on July 30 and Saratoga's Grade 1 Travers Stakes on August 26 for his summer goals.
- Classic Empire will stand at Coolmore's Ashford Stud in Versailles, Ky., upon his retirement from racing.
- Conditioner Todd Pletcher called Kentucky Derby sixth-place finisher Tapwrit 'definite' for the Belmont Stakes.
- Epicharis, who will be racing for a $1 million bonus put up by the New York Racing Association for a Japanese-based horse who can win the Belmont Stakes, entered quarantine in Japan on May 25 at the Miho Training Center, where he must be isolated for one week before shipping to New York.
- Irish War Cry, 10th as the second betting choice in the Kentucky Derby, is expected to return to the work tab over the weekend of May 27 – 28 at the Fair Hill Training Center in Maryland and is under consideration for the Belmont Stakes.
- The major summer target for Irish War Cry remains the $1 million Haskell.
- Trainer Kiaran McLaughlin confirmed that True Timber, third in the LARC Sir Barton Stakes on the May 20 Preakness undercard, is being pointed to the Belmont Stakes.
- Trainer Chad Brown said that Twisted Tom, a winner of two listed stakes at Laurel, is 'likely' for the Belmont Stakes, despite the fact that he would need to be supplemented to the race for $75,000.
- There are 13 contenders in the Belmont, the toughest test of all the Triple Crown races with its 1 1/2-mile distance. MORE: Odds to win 2017 Belmont Stakes. You can also 'box' an exacta.
- Potential Contenders for the 2017 Belmont Stakes; Potential Contenders for the 2017 Belmont Stakes. Posted by Jazzy Morgan on May 25, 2017 4:31:54 PM. In 16 days the world's best thoroughbreds will come together for the last leg of the Triple Crown™. Although there is no Triple Crown™ potential this year, the Belmont Stakes is still set.
- Below are the full results of the 2017 Belmont Stakes: 1. Irish War Cry 3. Senior Investment 6. Lookin At Lee 8.
Belmont Stakes Contender News & Notes: June 5, 2017 By US Racing Team Japanese invader Epicharis was released from quarantine shortly after 11:30 a.m. On June 3 and went straight to the training track at Belmont Park for a private training session in advance of the Grad. Irap put himself on the 3-year-old division radar with his three-quarter-length victory in the Blue Grass at odds of 31-1, his eighth lifetime start, where he beat fellow Travers contenders McCraken, second last time out in the Haskell, and Tapwrit, winner of the Grade 1 Belmont Stakes in June.
- McCraken, who exited his eighth-place run in the Kentucky Derby with a small puncture wound in a leg, returned to the work tab at Churchill Downs on May 23 to prepare for a planned return in that track's Grade 3 Matt Winn Stakes on June 17.
- Girvin, the Grade 2 Louisiana Derby winner who finished 13th in the Kentucky Derby, most likely will make his next start in the Grade 3 Ohio Derby on June 24 at Thistledown.
- State of Honor, who set the Kentucky Derby pace and weakened to finish last of the 19 who completed the race, is aiming the Prince of Wales Stakes, the second jewel in the Canadian Triple Crown, on July 25 at Fort Erie.
- Group 2 UAE Derby hero Thunder Snow, who was safely escorted off the Churchill Downs track after quickly aborting his Kentucky Derby start with a bizarre bucking incident out of the gate, is slated to return in the Grade 1 Tattersalls Irish Two Thousand Guineas at the Curragh on May 27.
- LARC Sir Barton Stakes victor No Mo Dough, who is not Triple Crown-nominated, will be trained towards a return in Saratoga's Grade 2 Jim Dandy Stakes on July 29.
- Gulfstream Park's Roar Stakes winner Classic Rock shipped from Florida to New York, where Kathy Ritvo's charge will put his three-race win streak on the line in the G2 Woody Stephens Stakes on the Belmont Stakes undercard.
- King and His Court, who captured Canada's 2016 Sovereign Award for Champion 2-year-old Male, has returned to the work tab following his May 7 Wando Stakes score at Woodbine and is headed to that track's July 2 Queen's Plate, the first leg of the Canadian Triple Crown.
How to withdraw from draftkings app. The 2017 Belmont Stakes is still 18 days away and the field is continuing totake shape. While it's a little early to put together a probable field, there'sat least 14 horses under consideration for the final leg of the Triple Crown, as seen on Horse Racing Nation's Stakes Tracker.
Classic Empire: After a gallant yet troubled run to finish fourth in the KentuckyDerby and losing the Preakness Stakes by a head, Classic Empire is pressing onto the Belmont Stakes and may find himself as the favorite.
Cloud Computing: Before the Preakness, Chad Brown stated Cloud Computing would not runin the Belmont. After an upset win though, Brown is considering the third legof the Triple Crown, but has not given any answers that lean one way or theother.
Twisted Tom: Cloud Computing is not theonly late developing three-year-old in the Chad Brown barn. Twisted Tom is on athree-race win streak, including two stakes in Maryland. $75,000 would beneeded to supplement Twisted Tom into the final leg of the Triple Crowncampaign.
Senior Investment:Following a late run for third in the Preakness Stakes, trainer Kenny McPeek isconfident that the 1 ½ miles in the Belmont will benefit his horse.
Belmont Stakes 2017 Results
Lookin At Lee: The Kentucky Derbyrunner-up made another late run in the Preakness to finish fourth. SteveAsmussen, who won last year's Belmont with Creator, also thinks the Belmontdistance should suit Lookin At Lee.
Tapwrit: The Tampa Bay Derby winnerthrough a clunker in the Blue Grass, but came back to run a respectable sixthin the Kentucky Derby. Partial owners Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners also hadpart ownership in Destin, who lost the 2016 Belmont by a nose to Creator. BothTapwrit and Destin are trained by Todd Pletcher.
Online betting promotions. Patch: The fan favorite, one-eyedPatch is another Pletcher horse under consideration for the Belmont. TheKentucky Derby marked only his fourth start and he finished 14th from post 20.
- Champion Classic Empire, fourth in the Grade 1 Kentucky Derby and second in the Grade 1 Preakness Stakes, is scheduled to begin his preparations for the final leg of the Triple Crown with a May 26 jog at Churchill Downs.
- Following the Grade 1 Belmont Stakes on June 10, Classic Empire is expected to target Monmouth Park's Grade 1 Haskell Invitational on July 30 and Saratoga's Grade 1 Travers Stakes on August 26 for his summer goals.
- Classic Empire will stand at Coolmore's Ashford Stud in Versailles, Ky., upon his retirement from racing.
- Conditioner Todd Pletcher called Kentucky Derby sixth-place finisher Tapwrit 'definite' for the Belmont Stakes.
- Epicharis, who will be racing for a $1 million bonus put up by the New York Racing Association for a Japanese-based horse who can win the Belmont Stakes, entered quarantine in Japan on May 25 at the Miho Training Center, where he must be isolated for one week before shipping to New York.
- Irish War Cry, 10th as the second betting choice in the Kentucky Derby, is expected to return to the work tab over the weekend of May 27 – 28 at the Fair Hill Training Center in Maryland and is under consideration for the Belmont Stakes.
- The major summer target for Irish War Cry remains the $1 million Haskell.
- Trainer Kiaran McLaughlin confirmed that True Timber, third in the LARC Sir Barton Stakes on the May 20 Preakness undercard, is being pointed to the Belmont Stakes.
- Trainer Chad Brown said that Twisted Tom, a winner of two listed stakes at Laurel, is 'likely' for the Belmont Stakes, despite the fact that he would need to be supplemented to the race for $75,000.
- There are 13 contenders in the Belmont, the toughest test of all the Triple Crown races with its 1 1/2-mile distance. MORE: Odds to win 2017 Belmont Stakes. You can also 'box' an exacta.
- Potential Contenders for the 2017 Belmont Stakes; Potential Contenders for the 2017 Belmont Stakes. Posted by Jazzy Morgan on May 25, 2017 4:31:54 PM. In 16 days the world's best thoroughbreds will come together for the last leg of the Triple Crown™. Although there is no Triple Crown™ potential this year, the Belmont Stakes is still set.
- Below are the full results of the 2017 Belmont Stakes: 1. Irish War Cry 3. Senior Investment 6. Lookin At Lee 8.
Belmont Stakes Contender News & Notes: June 5, 2017 By US Racing Team Japanese invader Epicharis was released from quarantine shortly after 11:30 a.m. On June 3 and went straight to the training track at Belmont Park for a private training session in advance of the Grad. Irap put himself on the 3-year-old division radar with his three-quarter-length victory in the Blue Grass at odds of 31-1, his eighth lifetime start, where he beat fellow Travers contenders McCraken, second last time out in the Haskell, and Tapwrit, winner of the Grade 1 Belmont Stakes in June.
- McCraken, who exited his eighth-place run in the Kentucky Derby with a small puncture wound in a leg, returned to the work tab at Churchill Downs on May 23 to prepare for a planned return in that track's Grade 3 Matt Winn Stakes on June 17.
- Girvin, the Grade 2 Louisiana Derby winner who finished 13th in the Kentucky Derby, most likely will make his next start in the Grade 3 Ohio Derby on June 24 at Thistledown.
- State of Honor, who set the Kentucky Derby pace and weakened to finish last of the 19 who completed the race, is aiming the Prince of Wales Stakes, the second jewel in the Canadian Triple Crown, on July 25 at Fort Erie.
- Group 2 UAE Derby hero Thunder Snow, who was safely escorted off the Churchill Downs track after quickly aborting his Kentucky Derby start with a bizarre bucking incident out of the gate, is slated to return in the Grade 1 Tattersalls Irish Two Thousand Guineas at the Curragh on May 27.
- LARC Sir Barton Stakes victor No Mo Dough, who is not Triple Crown-nominated, will be trained towards a return in Saratoga's Grade 2 Jim Dandy Stakes on July 29.
- Gulfstream Park's Roar Stakes winner Classic Rock shipped from Florida to New York, where Kathy Ritvo's charge will put his three-race win streak on the line in the G2 Woody Stephens Stakes on the Belmont Stakes undercard.
- King and His Court, who captured Canada's 2016 Sovereign Award for Champion 2-year-old Male, has returned to the work tab following his May 7 Wando Stakes score at Woodbine and is headed to that track's July 2 Queen's Plate, the first leg of the Canadian Triple Crown.
How to withdraw from draftkings app. The 2017 Belmont Stakes is still 18 days away and the field is continuing totake shape. While it's a little early to put together a probable field, there'sat least 14 horses under consideration for the final leg of the Triple Crown, as seen on Horse Racing Nation's Stakes Tracker.
Classic Empire: After a gallant yet troubled run to finish fourth in the KentuckyDerby and losing the Preakness Stakes by a head, Classic Empire is pressing onto the Belmont Stakes and may find himself as the favorite.
Cloud Computing: Before the Preakness, Chad Brown stated Cloud Computing would not runin the Belmont. After an upset win though, Brown is considering the third legof the Triple Crown, but has not given any answers that lean one way or theother.
Twisted Tom: Cloud Computing is not theonly late developing three-year-old in the Chad Brown barn. Twisted Tom is on athree-race win streak, including two stakes in Maryland. $75,000 would beneeded to supplement Twisted Tom into the final leg of the Triple Crowncampaign.
Senior Investment:Following a late run for third in the Preakness Stakes, trainer Kenny McPeek isconfident that the 1 ½ miles in the Belmont will benefit his horse.
Belmont Stakes 2017 Results
Lookin At Lee: The Kentucky Derbyrunner-up made another late run in the Preakness to finish fourth. SteveAsmussen, who won last year's Belmont with Creator, also thinks the Belmontdistance should suit Lookin At Lee.
Tapwrit: The Tampa Bay Derby winnerthrough a clunker in the Blue Grass, but came back to run a respectable sixthin the Kentucky Derby. Partial owners Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners also hadpart ownership in Destin, who lost the 2016 Belmont by a nose to Creator. BothTapwrit and Destin are trained by Todd Pletcher.
Online betting promotions. Patch: The fan favorite, one-eyedPatch is another Pletcher horse under consideration for the Belmont. TheKentucky Derby marked only his fourth start and he finished 14th from post 20.
Gormley: John Shirreffs sentGormley to Churchill Downs after winning the Santa Anita Derby, but the bestthe colt managed was ninth place. Gormley skipped the Preakness, but will takeanother shot at the Triple Crown campaign in the Belmont.
Irap: After breaking his maidenin the Blue Grass Stakes, Irap ran a distant 18th in the Kentucky Derby. TheDoug O'Neill trainee skipped the Preakness, but is also expected in theBelmont.
Epicharis: While the Japanese runnerskipped the Kentucky Derby, his connections always noted they would make thetrip to America for the Belmont. His one loss was in the UAE Derby when ThunderSnow nipped him at the wire.
Multiplier: After a sixth-place effortin the Preakness, the Illinois Derby winner returned to his Kentucky base.Trainer Brendan Walsh said Multiplier was a possible for the Belmont.
Meantime: Brian Lynch sent Meantimeout in the Peter Pan Stakes, the local prep for the Belmont, where the coltfinished second in his stakes debut.
Conquest Mo Money: Aftera disappointing seventh in the Preakness, Conquest Mo Money may be looking forredemption in the Belmont, and the speedy colt will hopefully draw better thanthe far outside post.
J Boys Echo: The Gotham winner onlymanaged 15th in the Kentucky Derby, but Dale Romans could be giving his Derbyhorse a chance for improvement in the Belmont.
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