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Big name trainers send two horses each to the Hill Prince on Saturday

By NY Hot List staff | October 20, 2022

Chad Brown, Shug McGaughey, and Todd Pletcher each have a pair of 3-year-olds entered in the Grade 2, $300,000 Hill Prince on Saturday at the Belmont at the Big A meeting. Celestial City is the 7-2 morning line favorite for McGaughey. Mackinnon is the second choice for Brown and Pletcher’s Grand Sonata is the third choice.

McGaughey commented about Celestial City’s chances in the Hill Prince, “I think it’s a good spot for him. He had a good race last time. We’re stretching him out a little bit, which should help. I’m looking forward to running him.”

Brown won the Hill Prince three times including last year with Public Sector; Pletcher won in 2013 with Notacatbutallama; while McGaughey will try and win it for the first time.

The Hill Prince honors the 1950 Horse of the Year who captured the Preakness, Jockey Club Gold Cup, Withers and Wood Memorial for trainer Casey Hayes and owner Chris Chenery’s Meadow Stable. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1991.

The $300,000 Hill Prince (G2) – Belmont at Aqueduct, Saturday, Race 7.

(3) Constitutionlawyer (A) got caught in tight quarters down the stretch and finished fourth. Blinkers come off as he tries this turf stakes race. (7) Mackinnon moves from the California barn of Doug O’Neill to Chad Brown who wins with 31% of new horses like this. Remember that last year this guy was third in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1) after winning three times. Since then he ran in stakes only. (1) Celestial City was an allowance winner last month after a second in the Saranac (G3) and a third in the Hall of Fame (G2) at Saratoga. (2) Grand Sonata was second in the Dueling Grounds Derby (G3) at Kentucky Downs after running in two legs of the New York Turf Triple for Todd Pletcher. As a winner of two stakes at Gulfstream Park in the winter, he gets some class relief in here.

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