Horse Profile: Emerging Market

Unraced as a two-year-old and lightly raced overall, Emerging Market punched his ticket to the Kentucky Derby by winning the Grade 2 Louisiana Derby - only his second career race.

In the Kentucky Derby (his most recent start), Emerging Market tracked the pace but flattened out in the stretch, finishing 10th.

This colt has Belmont success in his pedigree: Empire Maker, his dam’s sire, won the 2003 Belmont Stakes.

Five-time Eclipse Award-winning trainer Chad Brown, a native of nearby Mechanicville, is in pursuit of his first Belmont Stakes win.

A win in the Belmont would complete the career Triple Crown for jockey Flavien Prat, who won the Kentucky Derby in 2019 (aboard Country House) and the Preakness in 2021 (with Rombauer).