Santa Anita Race # 8, 7:43 PM

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Soul of Midnight Straight Fire

Kinda happy Dan lost cause now we dont have to hear about an * Triple Crown winner.

Though saratoga & FOX sure aint happy.

88-year-old Hall of Famer was leaning even more toward sending Seize the Grey to the Belmont Stakes, a race that Lukas has won four times at 1 1/2 miles but never under next month’s unprecedented circumstances caused by the rebuilding of Belmont Park.

“We’ll definitely consider it,” he said. “A couple of factors. You know the fact that it’s a mile-and-a-quarter this year. It’s at Saratoga. I like that. I like the Saratoga surface. The whole situation at Saratoga I like. We run there every year with our stable, and I’m sure that those officials will be contacting us. I would say at this point we’re strongly leaning in that direction.”

McPeek said he will wait “a week, 10 days, two weeks” before making a decision on that. mystic dan

After having 12 hours to digest the Preakness, McPeek gave all credit to Seize the Grey and his Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas. But being honest, McPeek did not have him on his radar heading into the Preakness.

“I was worried about Catching Freedom (who finished third), (Bob) Baffert’s horse (Imagination, seventh) and maybe Chad’s (Brown) horse (Tuscan Gold, fourth),” McPeek said. “I did not think Seize the Grey was a horse that could beat us. He ran great. Even on the gallop out, no one could run him down.”

thnks to h r n for odds

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FIERCENESS OUT .....

Kentucky Derby runner-up Sierra Leone drew post 9 in the field of 10 and was made the 9-5 morning-line favorite for Saturday’s Belmont Stakes, scheduled to be run Saturday at 6:41 p.m. EDT at Saratoga.

Trainer Chad Brown entered the winner of the Grade 1 Blue Grass and called on Flavien Prat to replace Tyler Gaffalione for the ride this weekend.

Kentucky Derby runner-up Sierra Leone drew post 9 in the field of 10 and was made the 9-5 morning-line favorite for Saturday’s Belmont Stakes, scheduled to be run Saturday at 6:41 p.m. EDT at Saratoga.

Trainer Chad Brown entered the winner of the Grade 1 Blue Grass and called on Flavien Prat to replace Tyler Gaffalione for the ride this weekend.