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Rombauer likely to meet six Kentucky Derby alumni in Belmont Stakes May 24, 2021 Kellie Reilly/Brisnet.com Preakness S. (G1) upsetter Rombauer is expected to face at least nine rivals in the June 5 Belmont S. (G1), including six last seen in the Kentucky Derby (G1). Here’s the projected cast for the Belmont along with plans for the other Derby graduates.  Hot Rod Charlie and previously unbeaten champion Essential Quality, the respective third and fourth across the wire at Churchill Downs, lead the Derby alumni pointing for the Belmont. Others freshened since the May 1 Run for the Ro...

Medina Spirit’s precarious victory in the Kentucky Derby hangs by the result of a split drug sample that has yet to be sent to a testing lab. Reports say that ball is in the court of the colt’s connections, including trainer Bob Baffert. (Ron Flatter phot Louisville, Ky. I have a lot of questions, more than a few answers and even some things to make you go hmmmm. For instance, whatever happened to C C Music Factory? And Arsenio Hall? Well, we’re waiting. Wasn’t Medina Spirit supposed to have lost his Kentucky Derby victory by now? Nearly two weeks after Bob Baffert’s media tour de ...

Cornerstone Spendthrift Farm Sire Malibu Moon Dies At Age 24 Sponsored by: Malibu Moon Malibu Moon, the foundation sire of B. Wayne Hughes' Spendthrift Farm, died suddenly on Tuesday in his paddock of an apparent heart attack. The distinguished son of A.P. Indy was 24. “He started Spendthrift for us,” said Hughes, founder of the modern-era Spendthrift. “Without Malibu Moon, we are not where we are today. It takes a special horse, and he was just that. This is a sad day.” A perennial leading sire in North America, Malibu Moon has been a staple of the Thoroughbred industry for...

3.57 Promise Keeper   The bad news for Promise Keeper and France Go de Ina is that American Pharoah is the only horse since 2004 to win a 1½-mile Belmont with a dosage index higher than 3.00.   Finally, in the last 14 normal runnings of the Belmont (in other words, ignore last year), the only two winners that had also been in the Preakness were Triple Crown winners American Pharoah and Justify. That trend would seem to work against Rombauer, Midnight Bourbon, Keepmeinmind and France Go de Ina.   The message here is that a good, strong case may be made on behalf of most of the horses in th...

Belmont: Prat Expected To Ride Hot Rod Charlie Over Preakness Winner Rombauer Sponsored by: Hot Rod Charlie beneath the Twin Spires at Churchill Downs, accompanied by his Hall of Fame stable pony, Lava Man Trainer Doug O'Neill told the  Daily Racing Form on Wednesday that top jockey Flavien Prat has committed to ride Kentucky Derby third-place finisher Hot Rod Charlie in the June 5 Belmont Stakes, rather than staying aboard Saturday's Preakness winner Rombauer, whom he rode for trainer Michael McCarthy. “We have Prat. Grateful to have him,” O'Neill told DRF. Hot Rod Charlie sh...