{"id":1357,"date":"2012-06-09T10:54:49","date_gmt":"2012-06-09T15:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/equestrianinfluence.com\/horsehappenings\/?p=1357"},"modified":"2020-01-14T12:26:09","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T17:26:09","slug":"union-rags-states-his-case-in-thrilling-belmont-stakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/equestrianinfluence.com\/horsehappenings\/union-rags-states-his-case-in-thrilling-belmont-stakes\/","title":{"rendered":"UNION RAGS STATES HIS CASE IN THRILLING BELMONT STAKES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yui_3_2_0_1_1339427550914415\"><span id=\"yui_3_2_0_1_1339427550914425\" style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">By Jenny Kellner<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">ELMONT<\/span> , N.Y. \u2013 All trainer Michael Matz wanted was a chance for Union Rags to show what kind of horse he is. Saturday afternoon at Belmont Park , the hard-luck colt got that chance and the result was a thrilling victory over Paynter in the 144<sup>th<\/sup>running of the Grade 1, $1 million Belmont Stakes.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">Coming off a troubled-trip seventh in the Kentucky Derby, Union Rags was brilliantly ridden by new jockey John Velazquez in the 1 \u00bd-mile Belmont , which lost its marquee horse on Friday when Triple Crown hopeful I\u2019ll Have Another was retired with an injured tendon. In the Derby and Preakness winner\u2019s absence, the crowd of 85,811 \u2013 the largest for a non-Triple Crown Belmont and the sixth-largest in Belmont Park history \u2013 made Derby third-place finisher Dullahan the slight favorite in the \u201cTest of the Champion,\u201d with Union Rags a close second choice, also at 5-2.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">Velazquez, newly elected to the Hall of Fame, settled Union Rags in along the rail as jockey Mike Smith sent Paynter to the front to lead the field of 11 3-year-olds through moderate fractions of 23.72, 49.23, 1:14.72, and 1:38.85 for the mile.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">With Paynter unchallenged around the turn and into the stretch, it appeared that Smith and Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert were about to gain retribution for their narrow losses with favored Bodemeister in the first two legs of the Triple Crown.<a href=\"https:\/\/equestrianinfluence.com\/horsehappenings\/files\/2012\/06\/UnionRagsBelmontStakes2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1359\" title=\"UnionRagsBelmontStakes2\" src=\"https:\/\/equestrianinfluence.com\/horsehappenings\/files\/2012\/06\/UnionRagsBelmontStakes2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/equestrianinfluence.com\/horsehappenings\/files\/2012\/06\/UnionRagsBelmontStakes2.jpg 499w, https:\/\/equestrianinfluence.com\/horsehappenings\/files\/2012\/06\/UnionRagsBelmontStakes2-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">But with Smith going to a left-handed whip as Union Rags steadily closed in, Velazquez boldly sent the long-striding colt up to the resulting hole on the rail, and he charged through with 110 yards to go and won by a neck. His time for the 1 \u00bd miles was 2:30.42.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">\u201cI waited for a hole to open up and I got lucky,\u201d said Velazquez, who won the 2007 Belmont with the filly Rags to Riches. \u201cThe horse did it all.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; color: #000000; font-size: small;\">\u201cIt looked like we had it,\u201dsaid Baffert. \u201cIt looked like it was ours. I really felt like I was going to win the Belmont . It was snatched away again.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">Atigun closed for third, with Dullahan finishing a non-threatening seventh.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">\u201cPaynter ran a big race, they all ran big. Union Rags ran big; we just didn\u2019t have a finishing kick,\u201d said Dale Romans, trainer of the beaten favorite. \u201cI think it puts Union Rags in the picture for an Eclipse Award. There\u2019s a lot of year left, and with I\u2019ll Have Another out, it\u2019s definitely in his own hands.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">Union Rags, who was both sold as a yearling and later bought back by owner Phyllis Wyeth, won the first three races of his career, including the Grade 2 Three Chimneys Saratoga Special and Belmont \u2019s Grade 1 Champagne. After a wide-trip second in the Breeders\u2019 Cup Juvenile to Hansen, the eventual champion 2-Year-Old Male, Union Rags began his 3-year-old campaign as one of the favorites for the Derby . Winner of the Grade 2 Fountain of Youth, and third in the Grade 1 Florida Derby, he was sent off as the 5-1 second choice in the Kentucky Derby but was beaten 7 \u00bd lengths after a nightmare trip.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; color: #000000; font-size: small;\">\u201cWe always thought this horse had Triple Crown potential,\u201d said Matz, who trained 2006 Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro. \u201cWhen we trained him, we gave him four races as a 2-year-old and gave him a rest and had a good plan. He never missed a beat. His first race [this year] couldn\u2019t have been any easier. He had trouble in his second race and his third race. I do really think that this horse, when he has a clean trip and can show himself, is one of the best 3-year-olds in this crop. Whether he could have done something against I\u2019ll Have Another, I don\u2019t know, but it sure would have been fun to see.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; color: #000000; font-size: small;\">Union Rags returned $7.50 for a $2 win bet and earned $600,000 for the victory, lifting his earnings to $1,798,800 for Wyeth, whose only other horse is a claimer. His record now stands at 5-1-1 from eight starts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">\u201cIt was my dream and he made it come true,\u201d said Wyeth, who has been confined to a wheelchair as the result of a 1962 car accident. \u201cNobody would have gotten through on the rail other than Johnny. That was unbelievable. He just said, \u2018Move over, I\u2019m coming.\u2019 He believed in the horse, and Michael got him there.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; color: #000000; font-size: small;\">Completing the order of finish behind Atigun were Street Life, Five Sixteen, Unstoppable U, Dullahan, My Adonis, Ravelo\u2019s Boy, Optimizer, and Guyana Star Dweej.<a href=\"https:\/\/equestrianinfluence.com\/horsehappenings\/files\/2012\/06\/UnionRagsBelmontStakes1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1360\" title=\"UnionRagsBelmontStakes1\" src=\"https:\/\/equestrianinfluence.com\/horsehappenings\/files\/2012\/06\/UnionRagsBelmontStakes1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/equestrianinfluence.com\/horsehappenings\/files\/2012\/06\/UnionRagsBelmontStakes1.jpg 750w, https:\/\/equestrianinfluence.com\/horsehappenings\/files\/2012\/06\/UnionRagsBelmontStakes1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jenny Kellner ELMONT , N.Y. &ndash; All trainer Michael Matz wanted was a chance for Union Rags to show what kind of horse he is. Saturday afternoon at Belmont Park , the hard-luck colt got that chance and the result was a thrilling victory over Paynter in the 144thrunning of the Grade 1, $1 million Belmont Stakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1358,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[97,52,2044],"tags":[254,169,258,353,256,354,109,261,352,349,351,262,350],"class_list":["post-1357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english-events-magazine","category-events-magazine","category-magazine","tag-belmont","tag-belmont-park","tag-belmont-stakes","tag-bob-baffert","tag-doug-oneill","tag-dullahan","tag-equestrian-events","tag-ill-have-another","tag-john-velazquez","tag-michael-matz","tag-paynter","tag-triple-crown","tag-union-rags"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UNION RAGS STATES HIS CASE IN THRILLING BELMONT STAKES - Horse Happenings<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/equestrianinfluence.com\/horsehappenings\/union-rags-states-his-case-in-thrilling-belmont-stakes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UNION RAGS STATES HIS CASE IN THRILLING BELMONT STAKES - Horse Happenings\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Jenny Kellner ELMONT , N.Y. &ndash; All trainer Michael Matz wanted was a chance for Union Rags to show what kind of horse he is. 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