Vosburgh Stakes 2024 Analysis

By Jarrod Horak

The Grade 3, $250,000 Vosburgh Stakes will be run at Belmont at Aqueduct on Saturday, September 28, 2024, and this race is a Win & You’re In for the Breeders’ Cup Sprint. The seven entrants will travel seven furlongs on the main track and Dean Delivers chases his fifth straight victory. The Vosburgh goes as the ninth race with a scheduled post time of 4:14 p.m. EDT.

Vosburgh Stakes Analysis

#1 Seven’s Eleven is 4-for-5 with a runner-up finish at seven panels. He projects a tactical trip from the inside post. 

#2 Scotland exits a sharp extended sprint optional-claiming win from the outside post at Saratoga. That snapped a 5-race losing streak dating back to the 2023 Curlin Stakes. Bill Mott’s stalker loses lasix and might work out the right inner trip behind the speed. The last time he went off lasix, he won the aforementioned Curlin. He shares the best last-race Today’s Racing Digest Final Time Rating (146) with Comedy Town.

#3 Baby Yoda romped in the Grade 2 True North at Saratoga on June 8, and was no threat in the Alfred Vanderbilt (G1) and Forego (G1) in his last pair. This is an easier spot and he handles this course and distance, but you are never quite sure what you are going to get from Bill Mott’s 6-year-old gelding.

#4 Dean Delivers won all four starts at shorter distances since moving to the Edward Allard barn. The early-pressing gelding handles this trip and should make his presence felt from the outset.

#5 Comedy Town won his last three sprint starts at Gulfstream Park including back-to-back stakes wins. The sharp early-pressing gelding handed this distance on Aug. 24.

#6 Mufasa pressed the pace and kicked away in an optional-claiming extended sprint at Colonial Downs on Aug. 12 and clear runner-up Repo Rocks was a next-out allowance winner. He is 3-for-3 at this distance and sports back-to-back Keeneland bullets for this. He is cross-entered in the Grade 3 Ack Ack at Churchill Downs.

#7 Lord Miles cuts back in distance after running last in the Grade 2 Charles Town Classic. He lacks early speed and will have to pass them all to win this.

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