Leading three-year-old filly Rags to Riches will be entered in Saturday's 139th running of the Belmont Stakes at Belmont Park. Trainer Todd Pletcher made the announcement Tuesday morning.
"We're going in because we think we have a chance to win," Pletcher said Tuesday morning outside his barn at Belmont Park. "The filly is doing very well."
The addition of a filly in the Belmont spices up a race that will be run without Kentucky Derby winner Street Sense.
"It should make it interesting," Pletcher said. "I'll be as excited as anyone else."
Rags to Riches has won her last four starts, taking the Santa Anita Oaks before her impressive win in the Kentucky Oaks on May 4.
Rags to Riches will be the lone female in the field for the final leg of racing's Triple Crown. She will attempt to become the third filly to win the Belmont Stakes. Ruthless won in 1867 and Tanya was victorious in 1905.
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