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Posted on Thursday, June 4th, 2009
The Belmont Stakes morning-line favorite Mine That Bird had his first tour of Belmont Park‘s oval Thursday morning, galloping briskly over the sloppy, sealed track this morning to prep for the $1-million Belmont Stakes 2009 at 1 1/2 miles.
Race horse trainer Chip Woolley and owners Mark Allen and Dr. Leonard Blach were on hand as the Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird, who was second in the Preakness, fairly skipped over the surface as he came down the middle of the stretch, as the inside part of the track was closed for training, with exercise rider Carlos Figueroa up.
“He gets over it so easy — that’s what I was hoping for,” said race horse trainer Chip Woolley, who immediately afterward departed with the owners to ring the Opening Bell at the New York Stock Exchange, along with jockey Calvin Borel. “He carries it with him wherever he goes. He loped through the stretch real easy. If there’s a track he doesn’t like, we haven’t found it yet.”
Mine That Bird, the 2-1 morning line favorite, arrived at Belmont Park on Wednesday afternoon following an uneventful flight from Louisville, Ky., a departure in travel style from the first two legs of the Triple Crown, for which Woolley personally drove him by horse van from New Mexico to Churchill Downs and from there to Baltimore for the Preakness Stakes.
Mine That Bird will face 9 other Belmont Stakes contenders this Saturday. Belmont Stakes 141 post time is 6:27 p.m. (EDT).
Horse racing news edited from www.nyra.com.
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