A week after wrapping up the Triple Crown, thoroughbred racing shifts its focus to top older horses with today’s NTRA Summer Pick 3, a national $1 bet that begins with the Grade 2, $250,000 Brooklyn Handicap at Belmont Park and concludes with the Grade 1, $750,000 Stephen Foster Handicap at Churchill Downs, both at a mile-and-an-eighth. Sandwiched between them is the Grade 3, $250,000 Leonard Richards at Delaware Park, for 3-year-olds going a mile-and-a-sixteenth.

The Brooklyn, to be run for the 115th time, was once one of New York’s premier events the best in memory. Three of the runners are graduates of last year’s Breeders’ Cup Classic at Arlington Park: Volponi (Jose Santos), who upset the Classic by 6½ lengths at 43-1; Harlan’s Holiday (John Velazquez), coming off a second in the March 29 Dubai World Cup, and Evening Attire (Shaun Bridgmohan), romping winner of last year’s Jockey Club Gold Cup over this track, who’s making his first start since November. All three share highweight of 122 pounds.

In the Leonard Richards, New York-bred Go Rockin’ Robin will be tough coming off a six-length romp in the Peter Pan, and Cherokee’s Boy is better than his eighth in the Preakness. Others with a chance are Region of Merit, Mt. Carson, Don Six and Christine’s Outlaw.

In the Foster, Aldebaran and Mineshaft are the class of the field, and both are in top form.

We’ll play a $1 part-wheel Pick 3 ticket ($36 total) using Saarland, Volponi and Iron Deputy in the Brooklyn, Go Rockin’ Robin, Cherokee’s Boy, Region of Merit, Mt. Carson, Don Six and Christine’s Outlaw in the Richards, and Mineshaft and Aldebaran in the Foster.