Lansdon B. Robbins III’s Legal Consent scored his third straight victory Sunday afternoon at Belmont Park, holding off a late rally from Slevin to take the 30th running of the $105,500 Mike Lee Stakes for New York-breds.

Ridden by Ramon Dominguez, the three-year-old son of Officer tracked Lookin at Her and That’s Rich through an opening quarter-mile in 23.31, then moved up to challenge on the turn. After taking the lead at the top of the lane, Legal Consent hung on to win by a half-length as he covered the seven furlongs over the muddy, sealed track in 1:24.72.

“After he took the lead, when he felt the other horses coming to him, he dug in,” said Dominguez, the leading rider at Belmont Park who is now three-for-four aboard Legal Consent.

Sent off at 3-10 by the Father’s Day crowd, Legal Consent returned $2.60 for a $2 win bet. In extending his lifetime record to 4-4-1 from 10 starts, he earned $63,300 to boost his bankroll to $372,343.

“Sometimes there’s a lot of pressure when you’re 2-5,” said winning trainer Carlos Martin of Legal Consent, who had back-to-back wins in an allowance and an overnight stakes prior to the Mike Lee, the first leg of the OTB’s Big Apple Triple. “After he made the lead, in the stretch, he dug in – Ramon said they weren’t going to get by him.”

Martin said the next start for Legal Consent would be the next leg of the Big Apple Triple, the $150,000, 1 1/16th mile New York Derby at Finger Lakes on July 11. The series concludes with the 1 1/8th mile Albany Stakes at Saratoga Race Course on Wednesday, Aug. 26. Last year, Tin Cup Chalice became the first horse to seep all three races, earning his owners a $250,000 bonus.

“Legal Consent won a $300,000 race (New York Breeders’ Futurity) there as a two-year-old last year,” said Martin. “It’s a mile and a sixteenth, but he loves the track, and hopefully that will get him the distance.”

Completing the order of finish were That’s Rich, Lookin at Her, and Monte Carlo. Katskill Bay was scratched.