Vosburgh Stakes (Grade 3) – Race 6 at Belmont Park – Post Time 4:48 PM Eastern

Top Win Contender(s): T Kraft, Senior Officer

Second on exactas:  Crazy Mason, Moonlight

T Kraft and Senior Officer finished second in a dead heat in the Forego Stakes at this distance. Both earned a 100 figure. Senior Officer has never finished second in seven races and that was his first-ever graded stakes race. Senior Officer earned his best winning figure of 105 at the distance two races before, on June 6. T Kraft earned his win this year from five starts but last year he won three of five races. His best was the best effort of the year. T Kraft gets the outside post and Junior Alvarado rides again, as he did in his only winning race this year.

Crazy Mason hasn’t won a race since April 2025, but he was beaten by a head by T Kraft and Senior Officer. He was second in the 2025 Vosburgh (102 figure) with Manny Franco, who rode him in that race and his last race. Moonlight ships from California, where he finished second by one-half length in the Pat O’Brien, earning a 104 figure. That race was a Breeders’ Cup Sprint qualification race, the same as the Vosburgh, and was his second race since he changed trainers to Peter Miller. He gets Jose Ortiz, who has been aboard in three of his five wins.

Handicapper Picks

Win bets: T Kraft, Senior Officer at odds of 5 to 2 or higher.

Exacta: T Kraft, Senior Officer over T Kraft, Senior Officer, Crazy Mason, Senior Officer

Flower Bowl Stakes (Grade 2) – Race 8 at Belmont Park – Post Time 5:48 PM Eastern

Top Win Contender(s): Gezora

For second on exactas: Sunlit Uplands, Kathynmarissa, Esna, Cathedral

Gezora is trying to win the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf again. Last time, she beat a field of 13, moving from sixth to win and earning a 120 Equibase Speed Figure, the best figure of any horse in this field. She has had three races since then, finishing second, eighth, and sixth. Gezoro’s best effort came in her first race this year, the Modesty Stakes in May, when jockey Prat Flavien rode her. She wasn’t 100% because she had been off for six months. She then changed trainers to Bill Mott. In her second race this year, she pressed the pace from fourth to third to second early while racing wide and finished eighth. That is not her style of racing. In her last race, run at a snail’s pace, she couldn’t make any ground and finished sixth. Today, Prat gets aboard again and her recent workout of 59.8 sent us a message. Her other workouts at 1:01.6 and 1:02 tell us she is interested again, which makes her the one to beat.

Four horses can finish second. Sunlit Uplands finished second in her U.S. race on August 22, earning a 105 figure, but she has never raced farther than one mile and one-sixteenth, and this race is one mile and one-quarter. Kathynmarissa has run five times at this distance, with a record of 0-2-1. Her most recent run earned a 106 figure. Esna is a European import and has won once in three races at this distance. That win came in a non-group stakes. Her two races since were Group 3 stakes, with her best figure at 109. Cathedral finished fourth in the 2025 Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf. Still, she put in excellent work recently, and she is now trained by Chad Brown and ridden by Flavien Prat. She earned a 108 last year in the Cup, and as a four-year-old she has the potential to run better.

Handicapper Picks

Win bets: Gezora at odds of 3 to 2 or higher.

Exacta: Gezora over Sunlit Uplands, Kathynmarissa, Esna, Cathedral