Mean Mary makes it look easy in Belmont's New York

Make it four in a row for Mean Mary, who was much the best Saturday over the turf at Belmont Park in the Grade 2, $250,000 New York Stakes.

The 4-year-old daughter of Scat Daddy entered the New York riding a three-race winning streak. All three of those wins came at Gulfstream Park, the last two in Grade 3 stakes.

Mean Mary had no issue taking a step up the class ladder and taking on a different course in the 1¼-mile New York. Under jockey Luis Saez, she went out to a comfortable lead in the field of six older fillies and mares.

The Graham Motion trainee went unchallenged through easy fractions of :25.11, :51.55 and 1:16.28. Saez had plenty of horse left entering the stretch, and she rolled on to a six-length score, covering the 10 furlongs in 2:01.85.

"I had a lot of confidence in her today," Saez said. "She always does everything right. Today, she was just galloping. The track feels good today and I think the rain helped her. She was super relaxed, even more so than her last race. She feels better now than she did last time."

Mean Mary returned $4.40 as the 6-5 favorite. My Sister Nat came home in second, with Feel Glorious in third.

Alex G. Campbell Jr. campaigns his homebred Mean Mary, who improved to 7: 5-1-0 lifetime.