Championship implications abound in the other three Super Saturday features
at Belmont Park, with the most competitive top-to-bottom arguably the $350,000
Vosburgh S.
(G1) over six furlongs. The Breeders’ Cup Sprint (G1) prep features that
race’s 2010 winner, BIG DRAMA (Montbrook), who was also honored with an Eclipse
Award last season as the nation’s top sprinter.
Given a long vacation following a sensational triumph in the January
The Bob Baffert-trained California invader, EUROEARS (Langfuhr), is
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TRAPPE SHOT (Tapit) blasted a capable field in the True North H. (G2) over
the Vosburgh course-and-distance in June, then missed in a tight photo last out
in the Alfred G. Vanderbilt H. (G1) at Saratoga. Also exiting the Vanderbilt are
multiple Grade 3 winner CALIBRACHOA (Southern Image), and APRIORITY (Grand
Slam), who had solid runner-up finishes in the Carter H. (G1) and Churchill
Downs S. (G2) last spring.
GIANT RYAN (Freud), a Calder mainstay like Big Drama, enters the Vosburgh off
a three-month break. An allowance winner at the Belmont spring meet, he shipped
to South Florida afterwards to take the Ponche H. and Smile Sprint H. (G2) in
consecutive starts.
The gelding FORCE FREEZE (Forest Camp), who began his career in the U.S.
before spending a couple years racing in Dubai, made a successful return to his
homeland in the July 31 Teddy Drone S., a race he won by four lengths in a
blistering 1:07 3/5 for six furlongs. The Vosburgh field is completed by the
Grade 2-winning three-year-old JUSTIN PHILLIP (First Samurai) and Westchester S.
(G3) scorer CAIXA ELETRONICA (Arromanches).
The $500,000
DELUXE (Storm Cat), a daughter of blue hen broodmare Hasili (Ire) (Kahyasi),
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Among the other major players are ARUNA (Mr. Greeley), this year’s All Along
S. (G3) winner who ran second in the Diana S. (G1) last time; EMERALD BEECH
(Maria’s Mon), the improving five-year-old who landed the Glens Falls S. (G3)
last time; Grade 2 veteran DYNASLEW (Dynaformer), second in the Glens Falls most
recently; and the consistent New York-bred GITCHEE GOOMIE (City Zip).
The $200,000
Fresh off a dominating Saratoga campaign is JACKSON BEND (Hear No
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The Kelso quintet is completed by the Grade 1-placed stakes winner SANGAREE
(Awesome Again) and longshot GOLDDIGGER’S BOY (Jump Start).