Oscar Performance’s Trikari Takes Home the Statue In Belmont Derby

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In a sit-sprint race that turned out to be a tactical affair, TRIKARI (c, 3, Oscar Performance–Dynamic Holiday, by Harlan's Holiday), the lesser-preferred half of an uncoupled entry with 8-5 second choice Endlessly (Oscar Performance), sat handy to a sluggish pace, engaged long-time leader White Palomino (Kitten's Joy) at the furlong grounds and just held off a late bid from the front-runner to take Saturday's GI Belmont Derby Invitational Stakes at Aqueduct. Two-back winner of the GII American Turf Stakes–at cricket-score odds–May 4 and exiting a game third in the GIII Penn Mile Stakes 27 days later, Trikari jumped straight into the bridle for John Velazquez and took up a stalking role from second as White Palomino enjoyed a very soft time of things on top through splits of :25 flat and :50.24. With positions unchanged down the back of the track, White Palomino was clicked up by Flavien Prat leaving the three-eighths pole and tried to win the race right then and there. The Chad Brown runner offered up a nice kick and held gamely into the final eighth of a mile and fought back determinedly once passed in deep stretch by Trikari, only to be on the wrong end of the bobber. Legend of Time (GB) (Sea The Stars {Ire}), favored at 3-2, was hemmed in at a critical stage by Royal Majesty (GB) (Frankel {GB}) and kicked on gamely, but too late. Endlessly caboosed the field throughout and had no rally when push came to shove. Sales history: $27,500 Ylg '22 OBSOCT. Lifetime Record: 7-4-1-1. O-Amerman Racing LLC; B-Michael A Slezak & Amy Boll (KY); T-Graham Motion.

 

TRIKARI pulls out the win in the Grade 1 Belmont Derby Invitational with @ljlmvel aboard for @GrahamMotion! pic.twitter.com/ANVygi3PKr

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Saturday, Belmont The Big A
BELMONT DERBY INVITATIONAL S.-GI, $727,500, Belmont The Big A, 7-6, 3yo, 1 3/16mT, 1:54.71, fm.
1–TRIKARI, 122, c, 3, by Oscar Performance
                1st Dam: Dynamic Holiday (GSW, $267,126),
                                by Harlan's Holiday
                2nd Dam: Dynamic Cat, by Dynaformer
                3rd Dam: Silent Cat, by Rahy
1ST GRADE I WIN. ($9,000 Ylg '22 KEEJAN; $27,500 Ylg '22
OBSOCT). O-Amerman Racing LLC; B-Michael A Slezak & Amy
Boll (KY); T-H. Graham Motion; J-John R. Velazquez. $412,500.
Lifetime Record: 7-4-1-1, $996,630. Werk Nick Rating: A.
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2–White Palomino, 122, r, 3, Kitten's Joy–Wolf Gourmet,
by Flatter. 1ST G1 BLACK TYPE. O-James J. Bakke and Gerald
Isbister; B-Bakster Farms (KY); T-Chad C. Brown. $150,000.
3–Legend of Time (GB), 122, c, 3, Sea The Stars (Ire)–Kissable
(Ire), by Danehill Dancer (Ire). 1ST G1 BLACK TYPE.
(150,000gns Ylg '22 TATOCT). O-Godolphin, LLC; B-Lordship
Stud & Sunderland Holding Inc (GB); T-Charles Appleby.
$90,000.
Margins: HD, 1 1/4, HF. Odds: 5.20, 5.20, 1.50.
Also Ran: Royal Majesty (GB), Endlessly.
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