My Adonis at the Belmont Park, trained for the first time there ahead of the “Test of the Champion”
Trainer Kelly J. Breen took his 3-year-old Belmont Stakes contender, My Adonis, to the Belmont Park main track shortly after the track opened at 5:30 am.
My Adonis was the first to be there among 11 other contenders, as the George and Lori Hall owned colt was a late entry for the Belmont Stakes, arriving at the Belmont Park a day before the entries were drawn on 6 June, 2012.
Kelly Breen, who had some things to take care of back at Monmouth Park, said that he wanted to see, My Adonis work ahead of the Belmont Stakes and he left happy with what he saw.
Bred in Kentucky by K and G Stables, My Adonis was the only one on the track, and according to his trainer he looked good.
“He probably looked around a little more than a horse would if there was company or something like that, but that’s him. I think most horses have a tendency to look around a little bit when there’s not much going on. I was very happy with what I saw.”
The son of Pleasantly Perfect, My Adonis is coming off a third place finish in the Cananero II Stakes on 5 May, 2012 at Pimlico to winner Pretension, who narrowly defeated the My Adonis by half-length.
My Adonis never raced at Belmont Park, but he did race in New York twice at the Aqueduct racetrack, and his best finish there was in the Grade 3 Gotham Stakes on 3 March, 2012, when he finished a close second to the 2011 juvenile champ, Hansen.
Against a much tougher lineup in the Grade 1 Wood Memorial, My Adonis finished a dismal seventh at Aqueduct to winner, Gemologist ahead of the Kentucky Derby, but chose a different path, and has now ended up at the business end of the three legged event – the Belmont Stakes.
“I don’t know his actual ability, how fast he can run, but I think he’s ready to run as best as he possibly can on Saturday,” Breen said of My Adonis. “He’s pumped up, he looks good, and he’s training good. I’d have to say that if he’s that calibre, he’s going to give them h**l.”
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