Rail Trip steps down from graded stakes races to participate in the Pot O’ Luck Stakes at Belmont Park for trainer Richard Dutrow
Trainer Richard Dutrow Jr. was all up beat before the start of the Grade 1 Whitney Handicap for his 6-year-old gelding, Rail Trip, and expected big things to dawn on his experienced runner, but a distant seventh in the Whitney Handicap at Saratoga crashed
the hopes of Dutrow for Rail Trp.
Now, instead of being stubbornly persistent, Richard Dutrow is clearly not aiming for Rail Trip to join the ranks of the elite in the handicap division, and the next race he is pointed to, is proof enough of the fact that Richard Dutrow is stepping back
with Rail Trip.
The son of Jump Star, out of Sweet Trip by Carson City, Rail Trip is gearing up to participate in the $60,000 Pot O’ Luck Stakes at Belmont Park on 15 September, 2011.
The best run Rail Trip has had in this and previous season, was back to back victories in the 2010 spring/summer season, where Rail Trip won the Grade 2 Mervyn Leroy at Hollywood Park on 8 May, 2010, over a distance of 1 1/16 miles.
Under jockey R Bejarano, Rail Trip got out of the gate and never looked back to win the first grade 2 race of the 2010 season.
His next start was in another Grade race, this time in the Grade 2 Californian also at Hollywood Park’s synthetic surface, but over a distance of 1 1/8 miles.
Rail Trip bagged it with ease, and ever since that run, the dark bay/brown horse has run in 4 races, finishing as a runner up twice and once a 5th and a 7th.
This season Rail Trip, once made a trip to Belmont Park to run in the Easy Goer on 5 June, 2011, under R Dominguez over a distance of 1 1/16 miles, and he was valiant in defeat as he had to roll in behind the winner Friend or Foe for second place.
Now, Rail Trip is going back, because the Pot O’ Luck Stakes is the featured event on Belmont Park’s Nine-race card.
Rail Trip has been winless in three starts since he has been sent to Dutrow, but he might change the stats and might make his new trainer look good after the Belmont Park’s feature race on 15 September.
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