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Chantal Sutherland Says:

On Saturday at Belmont Park, we will see if Union Rags is all he is cracked up to be when he runs in the $300,000 Grade 1 Champagne Stakes. He took the Grade 2 Saratoga Special last out, winning the 6-½ furlong race by a widening 7-¼ lengths. That was in the slop, and rain is not expected for the forecast, so we will have to see if he loses his advantage or not here. Alpha is his primary challenger and has only won one race, his maiden, but drew away strongly to win by six lengths. Power World has a couple of runner-up efforts in stakes races, but has yet to reach the winner\'s circle. Takes the Gold has something the favorites do not, and that is experience over the Belmont Park track and at the one mile distance of the Champagne, the conditions under which he broke his maiden. His speed figure was not as dazzling as the favorites but he seems to be taking a step in the right direction. Speightscity broke his maiden at the unusually long distance of 9 furlongs at Sartoga, so we know he can get the distance – he could upset the field here. Right to Vote, Invocation, No Spin, and Lauries Rocket round out the field.