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Trainer Tom Albertrani will look to pull off a Sunday stakes sweep at the Big A when he saddles half-siblings Wolfie’s Dynaghost in the Artie Schiller and Hail To in the Winter Memories.
“The last time, he made the lead pretty comfortably, but he got to waiting and laying on the horse next to him."
Irad Ortiz Jr. cemented his status as meet-leading rider with three wins, including two stakes scores, on Empire Showcase Day, a special 10-race card for New York-breds Sunday on closing day of the Belmont at the Big A fall meet.
Jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. paced all other riders at the Belmont at the Big A fall meet to secure the leading rider title with 35 wins.
Stuart S. Janney III’s Kentucky homebred Celestial City tallied his first stakes triumph with a powerful stretch run to capture Saturday’s $300,000 Hill Prince (G2), a nine-furlong inner turf test for sophomores at the Belmont at the Big A fall meet.