It will be worthwhile to pay attention to scratches and changes on this card. As Ruff had announced, the schedule originally called for 8 stakes races, but there are only 6 on Saturday's card. The other two were to be run on the turf and they have been moved to another day. Management didn't want to take the risk off having to take a major state bred stakes race off of the turf.
The two non-stakes races on our program have both been planned for the turf, but the forecast does not bode well. Today's Belmont card will probably be completed before the rains start, but the overnight forecast calls for rain. Trainers are well aware of this; race 4 has 7 MTO's listed and that is the sort of race that could likely be taken off of the turf if the forecast is correct.
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