Boisterous ready to start in the Manhattan Stakes on Belmont Stakes day
Bred in Kentucky by Cynthia Phipps and now owned by Phipps Stable, the winner of the Grade 3, $150,000 Fort Marcy Stakes at Belmont Park, Boisterous is doing absolutely fine after his brilliant victory over the Belmont Park’s turf race on 5 May, 2012.
The Hall of Fame trainer Claude McGaughey said that Boisterous along with his other stakes winner on the same day, Hungry Island, will make their next start on the Belmont Stakes day 9 June, 2012.
The 5-year-old son of Distorted Humor will be stretched out in distance from 1 1/16 miles to 1 ¼ miles in the Grade 1, $500,000 Manhattan Stakes at Belmont Park’s turf course.
Boisterous has previously won over the same distance at the same venue on turf last year in the Three Coins Up Stakes, defeating Grassy and Kindergarden Kid in the stretch.
"He seemed to come back good," McGaughey said of Boisterous. "I'm pleased with his race, pleased with him, hopefully we've got a fun year ahead. He's a really nice horse and we'll see what happens. He was a two-other-than this time last year, he had just
won two-other-than at Keeneland, and then he won (Belmont's Three Coins Up overnight stakes on May 22) and then he went into a Grade 1 (the Man o' War on July 9 at Belmont)."
Straight after his win in the Three Coins Up Stakes, Boisterous turned in a solid performance in the Grade 1 Man o’ War Stakes at Belmont Park, where he couldn’t out run the Irish invader, Cape Blanco in the 1 3/8 mile event.
Sent to Saratoga, Boisterous fell away badly to finish fifth in the Grade 1 Sword Dancer at Saratoga. The loss came in August last year, and McGaughey reacted to it and pulled his horse back in the barn for a couple of months.
Finally, when Boisterous was unleashed on the track, he was unbeatable, as he posted back to back victories in the Grade 3 Knickerbocker Handicap at Belmont Park over 1 1/8 miles and he downed the field in the Grade 2 Red Smith Handicap at Aqueduct to close
the season.
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