{"id":4439,"date":"2010-06-05T20:12:17","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T01:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=4439"},"modified":"2010-06-05T21:57:15","modified_gmt":"2010-06-06T02:57:15","slug":"longshot-winner-drosselmeyer-gives-winstar-second-2010-triple-crown-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=4439","title":{"rendered":"Longshot winner Drosselmeyer gives WinStar second 2010 Triple Crown win"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4440\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4440\" style=\"width: 252px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4440\" title=\"Smith_Mike\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Smith_Mike.jpg\" alt=\"Mike Smith aboard Zenyatta\" width=\"252\" height=\"161\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4440\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Smith aboard Zenyatta<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Drosselmeyer, a 13-1 longshot, won the 2010 Belmont Stakes by three-quarters of a length over Fly Down, at 5-1. Race favorite Ice Box, never a threat, finished ninth in the 12-horse field.<\/p>\n<p>It was the second Belmont win for Eclipse Award-winning trainer Bill Mott and the first Belmont victory for Mike Smith, who is second only to Jerry Bailey in Breeders Cup wins (13 to 15).<\/p>\n<p>Kentucky-based, but Texas-owned, WinStar Farm, Drosselmeyer&#8217;s owner, claimed its first Triple Crown race victory with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=4110\">Super Saver <\/a>in this year&#8217;s Kentucky Derby.\u00a0\u00a0Following his eighth-place finish in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/?p=4283\">Preakness<\/a>, however, WinStar decided against entering Super Saver in the Belmont.<\/p>\n<p>Drosselmeyer, the career winner of two out of eight races prior the Belmont, had tough trips in his two previous starts &#8211; the G2 Dwyer Stakes and the G2 Louisiana Derby &#8211; but still finished second and third, respectively. The Belmont was his first stakes victory.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was just happy we got a nice, clean trip,&#8221; said Mott, who replaced Drosselmeyer&#8217;s regular rider Kent Desormeaux with Smith in the Belmont. Smith, 45, a two-time Eclipse Award winner, has piloted super mare <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikesmith-jockey.com\/videos.shtml\">Zenyatta <\/a>for 13 of her 16 perfect starts; he also won the 2005 Kentucky Derby on 50-1 shot Giacomo.<\/p>\n<p>Mott saddled 1998 Belmont winner Victory gallop for former trainer Elliot Walden, when Walden was recuperating from a broken leg. Walden is now vice president and racing manager for WinStar Farm.<\/p>\n<p>This is the third time WinStar Farm owners Bill Casner and Kenny Trout, of Dallas, Texas, have had a horse in the Belmont. They finished second in 2006 with Bluegrass Cat and ninth in 2009 with Mr. Hot Stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Drosselmeyer, a $600,000 yearling purchase, is by Distorted Humor, who stands at WinStar, in Versialles, KY, for a fee of $100,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drosselmeyer, a 13-1 longshot, won the 2010 Belmont Stakes by three-quarters of a length over&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4439"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4450,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4439\/revisions\/4450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sallyharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}