Bowling Green, Lynbrook Highlight Final Belmont Weekend
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The final graded stakes at Belmont Park before racing moves upstate to Saratoga Race Course is next Saturday's Grade 2, $200,000 Bowling Green at 1 ½ miles on the Widener Turf Course.
Expected for the 56th running of the race for 4-year-olds and up are multiple graded stakes winner Boisterous, most recently seventh in the Grade 1 Manhattan; Grandeur, fourth in that race; Hangover Kid, second in the Grade 2 Monmouth last time out; Horvat Clan, making his stakes debut, and Irish Mission, Reflecting, and Sky Blazer, second, third and fifth, respectively, in the Belmont Gold Cup on June 6.
Calvados and Finnegan's Wake are questionable, according to NYRA stakes coordinator Andrew Byrnes.
The stakes action continues on Sunday with the $125,000 Lynbrook for 2-year-old New York-bred fillies, headed by Harlan's Honor, a 2 ¼-length maiden winner at Monmouth Park in her first start on June 27. Joining her for the six-furlong race will be Jiggin Witit, a winner second time out on June 7 at Presque Isle Downs over the artificial surface, and Accelebrate, second by a nose on June 19 at Delaware Park in her debut.
The field also includes first-time starters Saluda, Jessica's Ride, and Wonder Gal.
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