Champion Goodnight Olive tops Bed o’Roses at Belmont

By NY Hot List Staff | Friday, June 16, 2023

A week after an array of champions and future champions raced at Belmont Park, another champion will be on display Saturday in the Bed o’ Roses Stakes at Belmont Park.

Last year’s champion female sprinter Goodnight Olive will face four rivals on Saturday when she tries to rebound from a rough trip in the Derby City Distaff when she finished third. Among the rivals is Wicked Halo who finished second ahead of Goodnight Olive in the Derby City.

Here’s the Hot List picks for the Bed o’ Roses:

The $200,000 Bed o’ Roses (G2), Belmont Park, Saturday, Race 9.

(1) Goodnight Olive will try and get back to her winning ways after her seven-race winning streak came to an end due to an impossible trip in the Derby City Distaff (G1) at Churchill Downs. She is the horse to beat in this race although she finds a field of five that has won a combined 26 times. Goodnight Olive herself has seven of those victories and has never finished out of the money in nine career starts. (3) Wicked Halo is the winner of 5 out of her last 7 starts with a third in the Breeders’ Cup, a second ahead of Goodnight Olive, and a pair of Grade 2 victories. (5) Caramel Swirl won the Vagrancy (G2) at Belmont last month with an off-the-pace run in her second start of the year. Last year she ran only twice and was second in the Ballerina (G1) at Saratoga behind the top choice. (4) Dr B was second in her 2023 debut in the Vagrancy. She ended last year with a career best victory in the Go For Wand (G3) at Aqueduct.

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