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Mother Goose Takes Saturday Spotlight at Belmont Park

Undefeated Road to Victory returns to dirt after winning her last — a stakes race — over the Woodbine turf course last out in what was her first start in six months. The expensive and well-bred filly has a lights-out work over this track a week ago and is in solid hands with trainer Mark Casse. Manny Franco picks up the mount and while the daughter of Quality Road has never won at the distance, she has a router’s pedigree and her dirt figures are solid. Plus, she’s making her second start off a layoff. She has some tactical turn of foot and, if the step up in class isn’t too much (it shouldn’t be), she’s a logical choice for the top part of exotics tickets.


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Courtlandt Farm’s My Miss Lilly was an attractive runner in the Kentucky Oaks off her nice Gazelle victory, but ran a very dull 11th in Louisville. The Gazelle Stakes (GI) winner is back on her home track of Belmont Park and has been training exceptionally well for the past two months. At her best the $670,000 daughter of Tapit fits with the top rung of horses here and if her Oaks performance is a toss, she’s shown to be an improving runner with even more to give. Flavien Prat picks up the mount for trainer Mark Hennig and the time off may have done her some good.

My Miss Filly (photo by Susie Raisher).

Gulfstream Park Oaks (GII) winner Coach Rocks was also well-beaten in the Kentucky Oaks, but returned to finish a nice second in the very soupy Black Eyed Susan Stakes at Pimlico. She has won both starts at this distance and has been training really well for Dale Romans at Churchill Downs for the past six weeks. She’s the likely pacesetter and if nobody goes with her, she could be dangerous.

Gio Game is Casse’s other runner and returns off a third in the Acorn. This is a jump in class and competition, but her numbers say she’s got the talent to be competitive her.

Mo Smart, who has won her first two starts, hails from the powerful Todd Pletcher stable and has shown a ton of potential. She romped by 13 in her last, which followed a 7 ½-length debut win, and if she handles this jump in class she will be dangerous.

Indy Union seems in a bit tough. She’s consistent so worth an extra look for exotics, but she’s probably better suited to slightly softer company.

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