A pair of graded stakes worth a combined 300G in purses drew just 12 total entries today at Belmont Park. A light field of five 3-year-old fillies will go seven furlongs in the Grade 2, $200,000 Nassau County Breeders’ Cup, while seven veteran sprinters dash six furlongs in the Grade 3, $100,000 Bold Ruler Handicap.
Cyber Secret, 8-5 morning-line choice in the Nassau County, chased away some would-be opponents with her gate-to-wire, 51/2-length romp last out in the Comely mile at Aqueduct, when she handed last year’s 2-year-old filly champ, Storm Flag Flying, her first career defeat.
Trained by Rick Dutrow Jr. and ridden by Shaun Bridgmohan, Cyber Secret has won four of her last five starts, including the Cicada at the Big A, when she zipped seven furlongs in a rapid 1:22.2.
Cyber Secret, however, whose only bad race came last fall in the slop at Belmont, will be scratched if the track is off. That would leave Randaroo, trained by Dutrow’s Maryland-based brother, Anthony, the heavy favorite.
Randaroo won her first three starts by daylight margins before dropping a neck decision last out in Pimlico’s Smart Halo Stakes at 1-20 odds. John Velazquez has the mount.
In the “year of the New York-breds,” 9-year-old Say Florida Sandy, already the top state-bred earner of all time with $2,071,157 in the bank, can add to the total in the Bold Ruler. But he’ll have a hard time running down Shake You Down, who galloped gate-to-wire in the slop last out at Aqueduct, zooming six furlongs in a near-track-record 1:07.3.
Peeping Tom, a solid fourth behind the top-class Aldebaran in the May 3 Churchill Downs Handicap, will be running late.


