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Trainer Dale Romans is targeting major races at Belmont Park for three of his stable stars’ next starts. Read More
Jockey Javier Castellano sent C. S. Silk right to the lead and onto a 12-1 upset of the Grade 1, $400,000 Foxwoods Just a Game for fillies and mares on the Belmont Stakes undercard Saturday afternoon at Belmont Park.   It was the third victory of the afternoon for Castellano, who piloted the 5-...Read More
In addition to winning last year’s Belmont Stakes with Drosselmeyer, trainer Bill Mott captured the Grade 1 Foxwoods Just a Game with Proviso on the Belmont Stakes undercard. While Mott will not have a Belmont Stakes starter in 2011, he’ll have the opportunity to win the Foxwoods Just a Game for the...Read More
Trainer David Donk pronounced chestnut 5-year-old mare Strike the Bell fit and ready for the Grade 1, $400,000 The Foxwoods Just a Game on Saturday, the ninth race and second leg of the $1 Million Guaranteed All Graded Stakes Pick 4.   While 12-1 on the morning line, Strike the Bell has some st...Read More
Shackleford is on target for the Belmont stakes after a solid work this morning over the main track at Belmont Park. Read More
Aviate will attempt to earn her first Grade 1 victory when she competes in the Grade 1, $400,000 Foxwoods Just a Game for fillies and mares at one mile on the Widener turf course. A Juddmonte Farms homebred, Aviate has made two starts in North America, winning the Grade 2 Distaff Turf Mile at Church...Read More
Proviso, the even-money favorite, took the lead with 220 yards to go and held off a hard-charging Phola to win the Grade 1, $400,000 Just a Game presented by VisitNassauCounty.com on the turf Saturday afternoon at Belmont Park.   Ridden by Mike Smith, Proviso raced on the outside of pacesetter...Read More
  • mdracing69 · Quote from Bill Mott: “I’d probably want to try the Diana [Grade 1, $500,000, 1 1/8 miles on July 31 at Saratoga Race Course] with her. She has run longer races. She won the Spinster at a mile and an eighth but got DQ’d.” · 725 days ago ·
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JUST A GAME PRESENTED BY VISITNASSAUCOUNTY.COM QUOTES   Bill Mott, winning trainer of Proviso (No. 5): “She’s been a nice filly, but come to hand for us lately. We’ve got a couple Grade 1’s coming up; we’re hoping for more.   “Looking at the [form], I thought the race might shape up as it ...Read More
The Belmont Stakes is now only hours away and while the 3rd leg of the Triple Crown may lack the Derby and Preakness winner, it has no shortage of quality.  There are two colts, First Dude and Ice Box, on the verge of ascending to the top of the 3YO ranks with a win in the Test of the champion....Read More
Proviso, already a Grade 1 stakes winner against males, will face five talented fillies and mares in the 17th running of the Grade 1, $400,000 Just a Game presented by VisitNassauCounty.com, which is part of the undercard for Saturday’s Belmont Stakes.   Proviso began her career in Europe, win...Read More
Trainer Bill Mott issued an upbeat bulletin following Proviso’s breeze over Belmont’s inner turf course on Sunday morning.   “It was very nice,” said Mott. “She was on her own today, breezing on the bridle.”   Proviso covered four furlongs in 47.45 in the fastest of eight moves over the co...Read More
The Belmont Stakes Day undercard on June 5 will also feature three other Grade 1 races in the $300,000 Betfair TVG Acorn for 3-year-old fillies, the $400,000 Woodford Reserve Manhattan Handicap, a turf race for horses 3 and up, and the $400,000 Just a Game, also on turf for fillies and mares. A pair...Read More
Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott is not one given to superlatives, but he came close after Proviso’s bullet five-furlong work in 59.52 Sunday morning over the inner turf.   “It was,” he said, “one of those works that sort of “wowed” you.”   Winner of the Grade 1 Kilroe Mile in her last star...Read More
Quality Road will have his final tune-up on Tuesday for Memorial Day’s Grade 1 Metropolitan Handicap, and trainer Todd Pletcher could not be happier with the way the 4-year-old Elusive Quality colt is coming into the race.   “He’s doing great,” said Pletcher of Edward P. Evans’ homebred, who in...Read More
Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott reported Wednesday that Proviso, most recently a nose winner of the Grade 1 Kilroe Mile against males at Santa Anita on March 6, is on track to run in the Grade 1, $400,000 Just A Game on Belmont Stakes Day, Saturday, June 5.   The 5-year-old Dansili mare breezed...Read More
Diamondrella and jockey Rajiv Maragh thundered down the stretch to overpower last year’s champion turf filly, Forever Together, to win the $400,000 Just a Game Stakes (gr.IT) at Belmont Park June 6...Read More
Augustin Stable's Forever Together will be more than welcomed Saturday afternoon when she heads a field of seven fillies and mares in the 16th running of the Grade 1, $400000 Just A Game at a mile on Belmont Park's Widener (outer) Turf Course. ...Read More

Stakes Tracker - Probables

  • View Race Details 6/9/2012
  • 2012 Just A Game (G1)
  • 1 mile, Turf; 3+ F
Horse
Trainer
Status
Comment
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TapitsflyD. RomansProbable mdracing69
Hungry IslandC. McGaughey IIIProbable mdracing69
Winter MemoriesJ. TonerProbable mdracing69

Race Results & Past Performances

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View Details06/09/12Bel881 mileT03+ FJust A Game-G1   0:00.00
View DetailsView Video06/11/11Bel91 mileT03+ FJust A Game-G1C. S. SilkFantasiaAmen Hallelujah1:40.53
View DetailsView Video06/05/10Bel71 mileT03+ FJust A Game-G1ProvisoPholaMy Princess Jess1:34.09
View DetailsView Video06/06/09Bel71 mileT03+ FJust A Game-G1DiamondrellaForever TogetherMy Princess Jess1:36.49
View DetailsView Video06/07/08Bel71 mileT03+ FJust A Game-G1VenturaLady Of VeniceForever Together1:32.75