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Belmont Stakes Contenders Work at Belmont Park For The Belmont Stakes 141
Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird had his first tour of Belmont Park Thursday morning as he galloped briskly over the sloppy, sealed race track in preparation for Saturday’s 1 1/2-mile Belmont Stakes 2009.
The Belmont Stakes 2-1 morning line favorite Mine That Bird fairly skipped over the surface as he came down the middle of the stretch with exercise rider Carlos Figueroa up.
“He gets over it so easy — that’s what I was hoping for,” said race horse trainer Chip Woolley. “He carries it with him wherever he goes. He loped through the stretch real easy. If there’s a track he doesn’t like, we haven’t found it yet.”
Charitable Man, the second choice with morning line Belmont Stakes odds of 3-1, jogged twice around the training track with race horse trainer Kiaran McLaughlin looking on.
“I don’t know what we’ll do tomorrow because of the rain. He’s fit, but ideally speaking, we’d like to gallop over a fast track, just to keep him in a routine,” said race horse trainer Kiaran McLaughlin. “We don’t mind running on a sloppy track, but there’s no money in the morning, so we don’t train on it.”
Kalarikkal and Vilasni Jayaraman’s Summer Bird, jogged around the Belmont Park main track and stood in the starting gate as race horse trainer Tim Ice put the finishing touches on the colt’s preparations for Saturday’s Belmont Stakes 141.
The chestnut colt Summer Bird was full of energy as exercise rider Chris Trosclair cooled him out, and Ice was hopeful he would be able to gallop Summer Bird Friday morning.
“Yesterday (a mile gallop followed by a blow-out through the stretch) took nothing out of him,” said Ice. “If the track is sloppy, he’ll jog, but I’m hoping it’s all right. He needed a gallop today but I didn’t want to do it. If I jog him tomorrow, I may have to jog him three miles.”
The 2009 Belmont Stakes field will consist of 10 Belmont Stakes entries including (in post position order): Chocolate Candy, Dunkirk, Mr. Hot Stuff, Summer Bird, Luv Gov, Charitable Man, Mine That Bird, Flying Private, Miner’s Escape and Brave Victory.
Horse racing news edited from www.nyra.com.
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