Peter Pan
Belmont Park, 9th race. Grade 2. Purse: $200,000. 1¹/ miles, 3-year-olds. Post: 5:17 p.m.
LOWDOWN: After an abbreviated but promising 2-year-old campaign that saw him rally for a pair of seconds from three starts, all going a distance, Saint Vigeur has won both starts this year with blinkers on. He led all the way to break his maiden at Gulfstream Park going 1 1/16 miles, then pressed the pace and got up late in the mud at Aqueduct going 1¹/ miles. The son of Smart Strike is bred to go long, and he might have the most early speed in this prep for the Belmont Stakes.
TV: HRTV, TVG, NYRA Channel 1994
DECATHLON
Monmouth Park, 11th race. Purse: $75,000. 6 furlongs, 3-year-olds and up. Post: 6 p.m.
LOWDOWN:
Travelin Man has been regarded as an upper-crust sprinter since winning the Swale Stakes two years ago, but he has had a patchy career since then. Beaten a nose in the Teddy Drone last summer over this track, he did not race again until Feb. 9, and then was off again until March 30, when he cruised home by four lengths in the Sir Shackleton at Gulfstream Park. The fact that he’s running back again so soon after his last start indicates the problems that have sidelined Travelin Man so often might finally be behind him.
TV: TVG, NYRA Channel 1994
SENORITA
Hollywood Park, sixth race. Grade 3. Purse: $100,000. 1 mile, turf, 3-year-old fillies. Post: 6:38 p.m.
LOWDOWN:
Scarlet Strike is the class of this field, having run in seven straight stakes races since she broke her maiden last September, finishing in the top three each time. The daughter of Smart Strike, trained by Hall-of-Famer Jerry Hollendorfer, rallied to win the Grade 3 Providencia on the Santa Anita lawn last out, and she lost her only other grass race by a nose.
TV: TVG, NYRA Channel 1994.