When the foal dropped to the ground at Sagamore Farm in Green Spring Valley in February 2008, he had no idea what was in store for him or what he might mean to a horse farm with deep Maryland roots and a long history of greatness.
But Saturday, Monzon is expected to go to post in the Belmont Stakes as the first Sagamore home-bred to compete in a Triple Crown race possibly since the great Native Dancer in 1953.
Isn’t it fitting, then, that Monzon’s breeding tracks back to Native Dancer — a winner at both the Preakness and Belmont as well as two-time Horse of the Year — who was bred by Sagamore owner Alfred G. Vanderbilt?
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