1998 Belmont Probables

Dateline: 6/2/98

Here is info on the horses who have dropped out of the hunt for the Belmont.

Black Cash

Trainer: Patrick Byrne
Owner: Frank Stronach
Jockey: Shane Sellers

• Blood Horse profile
• Thoroughbred Times profile
• Equibase past performance summary
• DRF workout history
• Full pedigree and dosage info
• Probably gone now as not mentioned in the last probables list

Cape Town

Trainer: D. Wayne Lukas
Owner: Overbrook Farm
Jockey: Jerry Bailey

• Blood Horse profile
• Race Action profile
• The Racing Corner profile
• Thoroughbred Times profile
• Equibase past performance summary
• DRF workout history
• Full pedigree and dosage info
• Threw a show in the Preakness and had a filling in one leg and will be off a while. Details here. Update: has a fractured sesamoid and has been retired.

Coronado's Quest

Trainer: Claude R. "Shug" McGaughey III
Owner: Stuart S. Janney III
Jockey: Mike Smith

• Blood Horse profile
• Thoroughbred Times profile
• Equibase past performance summary
• DRF workout history
• Full pedigree and dosage info
• Definitely out now and will go in the Riva Ridge on Belmont day instead. Details here.

Dice Dancer

Trainer: H. Allen Jerkens
Owner: Hobeau Farm
Jockey: Jean Luc Samyn

• Thoroughbred Times profile
• Race Action profile
• Equibase past performance summary
• DRF workout history
• Full pedigree and dosage info
• Finished 4th in the Peter Pan and the Belmont is definitely out now.

Medford

Trainer: Walter M. Bindner Jr.
Owner: Donald G. McClinton
Jockey: ?

• Equibase past performance summary
• DRF workout history
• Full pedigree and dosage info
• Not mentioned lately so I am assuming he is out.

Nationalore

Owner-Breeder-Trainer: Myung Kwon Cho
Jockey: ?

• Blood Horse profile
• The Racing Corner profile (scroll down half way)
• Thoroughbred Times profile
• DRF workout history
• Full pedigree and dosage info
• Still a maiden, gelded since the Derby.

Orville N Wilburs

Trainer: Wallace Dollase
Owner: The Thoroughbred Corp., Michael Jarvis, Gary Margolis, Mark Schlesinger, and Wallace Dollase
Jockey: Corey Nakatani

• Blood Horse profile
• Race Action profile
• Thoroughbred Times profile
• Equibase past performance summary
• DRF workout history
• Full pedigree and dosage info
• Dollase sensibly dropped him from consideration after he worked too fast on 5/28.

Rubiyat

Trainer: F. Schulhofer
Owner: Judson L. Streicher
Jockey: Julie Krone

• Equibase past performance summary
• DRF workout history
• Full pedigree and dosage info
• 2nd in the Peter Pan but will definitely pass up the Belmont as he was lugging out at the end.

Saratoga Springs

Trainer: Aidan O'Brien
Owner: Michael Tabor and Susan Magnier
Jockey: Michael Kinane

• Tribute page from Steve in York, England nice profile and a photo
• Thoroughbred Times profile
• DRF workout history
• Full pedigree and dosage info
• May decided to come over for the Belmont but it is very doubtful. Latest word in the UK is he will go in the French Derby and then the English Derby 6 days later.

Silver Launch

Trainer: Nick Zito
Owner: Blue Goose Stable
Jockey: Corey Nakatani

• DRF workout history
• Full pedigree and dosage info
• Out now with a chip in his left front ankle. Will be out at least 3 months.

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