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Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert said Zedan Racing Stables’ multiple Grade 1-winner Taiba will skip Saturday’s Grade 1, $1 million Hill ‘n’ Dale Metropolitan Handicap, at Belmont Park.

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Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher saw just what he wanted to see out of last year’s Champion 2-Year-Old Colt Forte and Grade 1-winner Tapit Trice in their respective final tune ups for next Saturday’s Grade 1, $1.5 million Belmont Stakes presented by NYRA Bets.

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Lael Stables’ talented Grade 1-winner Chez Pierre is on schedule for a start in the Grade 3, $200,000 Poker, a one-mile Widener turf test for older horses, on Belmont Stakes Day June 10 as part of the three-day Belmont Stakes Racing Festival.

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Blue Rose Farm's Arcangelo, last-out winner of the Grade 3 Peter Pan here, worked five-eighths solo in 1:02.81 over Big Sandy on Wednesday with Hall of Fame jockey Javier Castellano aboard in preparation for the Grade 1, $1.5 million Belmont Stakes presented by NYRA Bets.

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SF Racing, Starlight Racing, Madaket Stables, Robert Masterson, Stonestreet Stables, Jay A. Schoenfarber, Waves Edge Capital and Catherine Donovan’s Grade 1 Preakness-winner National Treasure worked a half-mile solo Tuesday over Big Sandy in preparation for the Grade 1, $1.5 million Belmont Stakes presented by NYRA Bets.

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Winchell Thoroughbreds’ Kentucky homebred Red Route One posted a half-mile breeze in 50.85 seconds over the Belmont Park main track Monday in preparation for the Grade 1, $1.5 million Belmont Stakes presented by NYRA Bets on June 10 over Big Sandy.