5/28-30 (BEL): Met (G1), Sands Point (G2); NY Stakes; Sheepshead (G2)
 

SATURDAY 9th (5:17) Sheepshead Bay S. (G2)

1 3/8 Miles (Turf) | Fillies and Mares | 3 Year Olds And Up Stakes | Purse: $150,000

2 Giants Play Maragh R 116 L
3 Hibaayeb (GB) Velazquez J R 123 L
4 Cheetah (GB) Gomez G K 116 L
5 Tarrip Dominguez R A 116 L
6 La Luna de Miel (GER) Castro E 120 L
1 Belle Watling (CHI) Curatolo R 120 L
1A Choice Play Samyn J L 116 L

A-Coupled: Belle Watling (CHI) and Choice Play

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SUNDAY 7th (4:12) Mount Vernon S.

1 Mile (Turf) | Fillies and Mares | 3 Year Olds And Up Stakes | Purse: $100,000

2 Chorus Music Solis A 119 L
3 Akilina Maragh R 117 L
4 Exclusive Scheme Dominguez R A 115 L
5 Loyal Shadow Studart M 115 L
6 Gitchee Goomie Garcia Alan 115 L
7 Frivolous Buck Castro E 115 L
8 Paraiba Velazquez J R 115 L
9 MTO Cody Samora Maragh R 115 L
10 MTO Life's Measure Curatolo R 115 L
1 MTO Banker's Buy Curatolo R 115 L
1A MTO Eager Emma Curatolo R 115 L

A-Coupled: Banker's Buy and Eager Emma



SUNDAY 9th (5:17) Kingston S.

1 Mile (Turf) | Open | 3 Year Olds And Up Stakes | Purse: $100,000

1 Pretty Boy Freud Velazquez J R 116 L
2 Piazza Di Spagna Curatolo R 116 L
3 Lubash Lezcano J 123 L
4 Banrock Castellano J J 118 L
5 Scientist Velasquez C 116 L
6 Pocket Cowboys Prado E S 120 L
1A Uncle T Seven Solis A 120 Blk-Off L
7 Spa City Fever Chavez J F 116 L

A-Coupled: Pretty Boy Freud and Uncle T Seven

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MONDAY 9th (5:16) Sands Point S. (G2)

1 1/16 Miles (Inner turf) | Fillies | 3 Year Olds Stakes | Purse: $150,000

1 Arch Support Prado E S 117 L
2 Mystical Star Velazquez J R 117 L
3 Naples Bay Maragh R 117 L
4 Celestial Kitten Castellano J J 117 L
5 Parting Words Dominguez R A 117 L
6 Winter Memories Lezcano J 123 L
MTO Life's Measure Curatolo R 117 L



MONDAY 10th (5:49) Metropolitan H. (G1)

1 Mile | Open | 3 Year Olds And Up Stakes | Purse: $500,000

1 Soaring Empire Lezcano J 118 L
2 Stormy's Majesty Prado E S 115 L
3 Rodman Hill C 115 L
4 Aikenite Velazquez J R 120 L
5 Caixa Eletronica Velasquez C 117 L
6 Yawanna Twist Luzzi M J 115 L
7 Ibboyee Castellano J J 115 L
8 Haynesfield Dominguez R A 119 L
9 Kensei Castro E 115 L
10 Tackleberry Santiago Javier 120 FTL
11 Tizway Maragh R 116 L

The Met Mile field looks awesome! What a fun group.

That's a nice, little Met Mile field. Looking forward to that.

tacklberry is a very nice horse.

Add Loyal Shadow to Mount Vernon possibles.

Very nice and surprised to see Sidney's Candy outside of CA

ANY DT'ers planning on heading out Monday? Might go early and grab a table by the paddock area if we put a group together and the weather is nice! :)

If that ends up being the Met Mile field, that's a terrific group.

Is Friend Or Foe actually going to ever start again or did Kimmel go "all in" for the NYRA Mile late last year?

Very interested to see how Naples Bay handles the class test..................

Can't you see the met mile completely falling apart with all of that pace? Probably the best dirt race of the year so far.

I don't know what you mean. It's pretty much just Haynesfield and Morning Line with serious speed and neither of them are need-the-lead types.

Rodman, Stormy's Majesty, Tackleberry, Tizway should all be interested in the lead as well. However, it's not like in years past when a speed horse was stretching out and ensured a white hot pace.

Morning Line won't run
 

Morning Line, winner of the Grade 1 Carter Handicap last month at Aqueduct, will not run in Monday’s Metropolitan Handicap as scheduled, due to a foot issue, trainer Nick Zito confirmed Thursday afternoon.

http://www.drf.com/news/belmont-park...-line-wont-run

Tackelberry is one tough horse. He gets no respect at the windows but runs his A game every time

Duke of Mischief is going to the Cornhusker I believe... sad about Morning Line... still an awesome race though, always one of the best on the circuit each year.

11 show up for Met!

http://www.equibase.com/premium/eqbH...-BEL-20110530D

1 Soaring Empire Lezcano J 118 L
2 Stormy's Majesty Prado E S 115 L
3 Rodman Hill C 115 L
4 Aikenite Velazquez J R 120 L
5 Caixa Eletronica Velasquez C 117 L
6 Yawanna Twist Luzzi M J 115 L
7 Ibboyee Castellano J J 115 L
8 Haynesfield Dominguez R A 119 L
9 Kensei Castro E 115 L
10 Tackleberry Santiago Javier 120 FTL
11 Tizway Maragh R 116 L

It will be interesting to see. Diva Ash flattered her in winning the Edgewood earlier this month. I'm a huge fan of Winter Memories, but I'm not fully convinced she has to win this at such a short price and could be worth playing against in the late 4.

I'm a little biased as the breeder (original owner of Medalia D`Oro) of this horse lives here in Great Falls but she should be in the hunt at the end. She has been handled very conservatively but has the right running style to make the jump. I agree about Winter Memories but it will be interesting who sets the pace as most in here appear to be stalkers. Could be a sprint to the wire.

claxia e is going to run a big one imo

Going to be tough for any filly to beat that monster this summer.

Mind boggling (and too bad) that she lost at Churchill.

Congrats to Jimmy Toner.

On to The New York or perhaps the American Oaks?

Toner is conservative so it won't happen but I'd love to see her try males in a race like the Va Derby.

I second that. What boys would she have to be afraid of? Banned?

Exactly. If they don't want to go west then there's really not a race for her in NY until the Lake George. Monmouth has a Grade III in late June but that filly doesn't need to be running in G3 races. Its nice to see good, veteran trainers like Bond, Hushion, and Toner have 3 strong performances today.

Two Stakes at Saratoga, Garden City, and Queen Elizabeth.

With the decline of the American Oaks, instead of putting $500K into a turf race for older males a week after the Manhattan and only a few weeks before the UN, it probably would have made more sense for Colonial to move up the Virginia Oaks to mid-June and bump the purse to $500K. Probably would have drawn a nice field.

Big race from Tizway today.... Met Mile never fails to deliver.

Rodman really blew-up the exotics.... big payoffs despite a 3-1 winner who was well noted in a variety of spaces as the horse to bet.

Watching Winter Memories today reminds me of Wonder Again, and when the filly/mare turf division seemed to be stacked year in and year out. Good for Toner to have another top notch turf distaffer. She was really impressive today. Two big efforts from the stakes winner this afternoon.

I really screwed that up. . . was a big fan of Rodman's a few years ago. Just didn't love his comebacker considering the slow pace.

Memories Of Silver
 

I remember Memories Of Silver rather well. I was at Saratoga for her first two stakes wins in the Lake George, which I think was a 50k stake at the time, and the Nijana. She was undefeated at the Spa.

Not to salt the wounds, but when a 3-1 favorite wins, and 2 of the 3 spots underneath are single digit horses, the Superfecta rarely balloons to $15k on a circuit like NY. It paid a lot like a Breeders' Cup race.

He ran Memories of Silver later in her 3-year-old year I believe in the BC Mile. She ran okay too. Not that Winter Memories needs to do that too though... but it's interesting.

The Nijana was changed to the Lake Placid.

Yeah... I had to look up the year, but in 1998 it flipped to the Lake Placid... Tenski won for The Mig that year.

I saw Nijana win the Schylerville in 1975.

113 Beyer for Tizway. . .