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Somali Lemonade Seeks to Regain Winning Form

Somali Lemonade Seeks to Regain Winning Form

Grade III winner Somali Lemonade seeks to get back on the winning track when she heads the eight-horse field entered in the May 28 Sands Point (gr. IIT) on the Memorial Day card at Belmont Park.

 Friday, May 25, 2012
Winter Memories Tops Sands Point Lineup

Winter Memories Tops Sands Point Lineup

Phillips Racing Partnership's homebred Winter Memories, a multiple grade III winner on turf, is the 123-pound high weight for the $150,000 Sands Point (gr. II) on the Memorial Day card at Belmont Park.

 Friday, May 27, 2011
Check the Label Weaves Way to Sands Point Win

Check the Label Weaves Way to Sands Point Win

Check the Label burst through an opening between horses in a crowded stretch to win the $150,000 Sands Point Stakes (gr. IIT) over the Belmont Park inner turf course May 31.

 Monday, May 31, 2010
Negligee Continues on Turf in Sands Point

Negligee Continues on Turf in Sands Point

A grade I winner on Polytrack as a juvenile, Negligee tries to proves her talent on turf against seven 3-year-old fillies, including a pair of recent grade III winners in the Sands Point Stakes on Memorial Day at Belmont.

 Friday, May 28, 2010
Raw Silk Smooth Winner of Sands Point

Raw Silk Smooth Winner of Sands Point

Darley Stable's Raw Silk staged a minor upset at a rainy Belmont Park May 31, when she took the $150,000 Sands Point Stakes (gr. IIT) in a wire-to-wire effort under jockey Alan Garcia.

 Saturday, May 31, 2008

Melhor Ainda Heads Sands Point Field

TNT Stud's undefeated three-year-old filly Melhor Ainda takes on seven rivals in Sunday's $100,000-added Sands Point for 3-year-old fillies at 1 1/8 miles on the Belmont Park turf.

 Friday, June 03, 2005

Mambo Slew Slithers to Sands Point Victory

Jockey Edgar Prado weaved Mambo Slew through traffic along the inside in the stretch to catch favored Lucifer's Stone in the final jumps of the $114,800 Sands Points (gr. IIIT) for 3-year-old fillies at Belmont Park on Sunday.

 Sunday, June 13, 2004

Minge Cove Looks for Sands Point Upset

Minge Cove was beaten 2 1/2 lengths in the Herecomesthebride after a troubled trip. The winner, Lucifer's Stone, had just taken an entry-level allowance and owned a decided experience edge. When the two meet again in Sunday's $100,000 Sands Point Stakes (gr. IIIT) for 3-year-old fillies at nine furlongs on grass, Minge Cove might have a better shot .

 Friday, June 11, 2004

Sands Point Switch Turns On Savedbythelight

Days of rain forced the $114,600 Sands Point Stakes off the water-logged Belmont Park turf Sunday and enabled main-track-only Savedbythelight to draw off and win the depleted 1 1/8-mile Father's Day stakes race in 1:49 on a fast track.

 Sunday, June 15, 2003

Lake Placid Draws 11 to Saratoga Turf

Riskaverse is the sole graded stakes winner among a field of 11 expected to start Sunday in the $150,000 Lake Placid Handicap (gr. IIT) at Saratoga.

 Friday, August 16, 2002

Riskaverse Edges Cyclorama in Sands Point

Riskaverse rallied to win the $116,100 Sands Point Stakes (gr. IIIT) by a head Sunday at Belmont Park.

 Sunday, June 16, 2002

Tweedside Upsets Platinum Tiara in Muddy Sands Point

Tweedside drew away to a six-length win in the $107,800 Sands Point Stakes at Belmont Park Sunday as favored Platinum Tiara finished third.

 Sunday, June 17, 2001