Speaker’s Corner, a 4-year-old colt by Street Sense, owns a pair of one-turn mile triumphs among his three graded stakes wins this season. Flightline, who competes at eight furlongs for the first time now, appears to have more early speed, but Speaker’s Corner (8-5) won’t be too far behind here. However, a :46⅘ work Sunday suggests to all (including trainer John Sadler and jockey Flavien Prat) that the 4-year-old son of Tapit has recovered from a muscle strain. Flightline (3-5) races for the first time since Dec. 1 and 2, respectively, in what shapes up as a doozy of a Met Mile, despite just five entrants. Speaker’s Corner is 3-for-3 in 2022, 6-of-9 lifetime. Metropolitan Handicap (1 mile, 3-year-olds and older)įlightline is 3-for-3…by a combined three dozen lengths. John Velazquez has the mount from post No. An intriguing longshot is Chasing Artie (15-1), making his third start in the form cycle after stumbling badly in his last out However, he recovered to finish just 4½ lengths behind Arrest Me Red. Casa Creed, whose last win (at 10-1) came in the 2021 Jaipur, has not raced since a fifth-place finish in Dubai. Casa Creed (9-2) is among the late arrivals, with Luis Saez aboard the off-the-pace number for trainer Bill Mott from post No. 5 and could find himself sitting just off the lead in a race largely empty of early speed. The Wesley Ward trainee drew post position No. Arrest Me Red, ridden by Irad Ortiz Jr., is the tepid 5-2 favorite. Seemingly, two stand out, but the pure depth of this field could produce a price when betting online. Jaipur Stakes (6 furlongs, 3-year-olds and older)Īs was mentioned above, the short fields are the order of the day in these stakes, However, 13 horses cram into the starting gate for this three-quarter-mile dash. Ridden by Joel Rosario and Flavien Prat, they drew post position Nos. Clairiere (3-1), who finished second (while no significant threat) to Letruska in April, and Bonny South (8-1), second to Malathaat by three-quarters of length last month, figure to be the closers. John Velazquez rides, breaking from post position No. Malathaat (5-2), the 3-year-old filly champion of 2021, probably stalks the leaders. There is every reason to believe that Jose Ortiz will have Letruska on the lead from the rail, but -ridden by Jose’s brother, Irad-could press the issue. Those with deep pockets could simply hit the “all” button in this five-horse field, though it could well be whittled down to reigning top older female Eclipse Award winner Letruska (6-5) and (9-2). Ogden Phipps Stakes (1 1/16 miles, fillies & mares, 4YO and older) Wit (Irad Ortiz Jr., post 3) was a nose winner in Aqueduct’s Bay Shore. This 3-year-old son of Munnings drew post position No. after an impressive victory in the Pat Day Mile Derby Day in his 3-year-old debut. Jack Christopher, ridden by Jose Ortiz and trained by Chad Brown, is 3-for-3 (total margins more than 15 lengths. Perhaps a free square as Jack Christopher is 1-2 to dismiss five others. Woody Stephens Stakes (7 furlongs, 3-year-olds) He is listed as the morning-line third choice in the horse racing odds at 7-2. In the Belmont, there won’t be anywhere near the 80-1, get-out-for-life odds for Kentucky Derby champ Rich Strike. With woefully-short fields in many of the races, value in the sequence may be found in a pair of races on the lawn, the Jaipur and the Manhattan. It’s an All-Grade I six-pack including a showdown between Flightline and Speaker’s Corner in the Metropolitan Mile and North America’s best distaffers in the Ogden Phipps. That’s what awaits horseplayers Saturday at Belmont Park. It’s a star-studded Pick 6 sequence, beginning with Jack Christopher in the Woody Stephens Stakes and ending with Rich Strike and Friends in the 154th Belmont Stakes.
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