Filly Rags to Riches Ready for Belmont Stakes

The fabulous filly will run Saturday in the Belmont Stakes, where she will attempt to become the first of her sex in 102 years to win the final jewel of the Triple Crown.

"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."

"It should make it interesting," Pletcher said. "I'll be as excited as anyone else."

The 3-year-old filly is a daughter of 1992 Belmont winner A.P. Indy and a half-sister to Jazil, last year's Belmont winner.

Rags to Riches would be the first filly in eight years and 22nd ever to run in the Belmont. Silverbulletday finished seventh in 1999, and two fillies have won Tanya in 1905 and Ruthless in 1867.

"Arguably, she has the best pedigree for this race any horse could ever have," Pletcher said.

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