Flower Alley Running at Woodward Stakes After Breeder’s Death

Flower AlleyThe $500,000 Woodward Stakes (gr. I) Saturday at Saratoga could turn out to be the most crucial start of the year for 2005 Travers (gr. I) champion Flower Alley, the race is just a week after the 4-year-old’s breeder was killed in the crash of a Comair jet in Kentucky.

Flower Alley’s owner, Eugene Melnyk, is dedicating the race to breeder George Brunacini, who was among the 49 people who died in Sunday’s crash at the airport in Lexington, Ky. Jockey John Velazquez will wear a black band on his pants when he rides Flower Alley.

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