The Belmont will be run Saturday at Saratoga Race Course
Sierra Leone gets washed after a workout on Wednesday, June 5, 2024, at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.. Hell, it isn’t even your grandfather’s. Think of it more as the year they dug the third jewel out of racing’s Triple Crown and replaced it with a zircon.
Brown is contemplating an equipment change. He likely will replace the horse’s standard bit with a cage bit, which gives the rider more control over the direction he wants the horse to move. Sierra Leone might have won the Derby had he not repeatedly bumped another horse down the stretch. Brown is counting on Flavien Prat to guide the colt in a clearer lane.
He added: “The fans can relate to Mystik Dan, they can take a look at Seize the Grey and we get a chance to see them both and determine probably which is the better of the two. I think that the Belmont this year could easily be — you could make an argument for it being — the best of the three: the Derby, the Preakness or the Belmont. I think that they have probably put together the best of the three.
“How the race sets up is so unique,” Mystik Dan’s trainer Kenny McPeek said. “Mystik Dan is such a unique horse in that he’s got tactical speed, and I think that put him in a position to be able to win the Derby. Of course the running style of Sierra Leone’s counter to Mystik Dan and then Seize the Grey. We’ve got a speed horse, a stalker, and we’ve got a closer.”
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