Susan Wantz’s Dance to Bristol made it five in a row, with a 2 3/4-length victory Saturday in the seven-furlong, Grade 3 Bed o’ Roses Handicap at Belmont Park.
It may have been raining earlier, but when Dogwood Stable's Palace Malice hit the wire to win the 145th running of the 1½-mile, $1,000,000 Grade 1 Belmont Stakes, there was plenty of blue sky.
Darley Stable’s homebred Side Road has been entered in the 1 1/4-mile, $500,000, Grade 1 Woodford Reserve Manhattan Handicap, scheduled for the turf Saturday at Belmont Park.
Jim and Debbie Miller’s Daisy Devine is the 7/5 morning line favorite for the 37th running of Saturday’s 1 1/16-mile, $100,000, Grade 3 Early Times Mint Julep Handicap at Churchill Downs.
The two Aiken connnected horses entered in Saturday's Belmont Stakes, had their post positions drawn Wednesday morning for the third jewel of Thoroughbred racing's Triple Crown.
