Belmont Stakes Contenders - Post Positions and Odds

Here's the final list of seven horses who will show up for the 139th running of the Belmont Stakes as well as their post positions and odds from Belmont Park.

1. Imawildandcrazyguy 20/1
2. Tiago 10/1
3. Curlin 6/5
4. C P West 12/1
5. Slew’s Tizzy 20/1
6. Hard Spun 5/2
7. Rags to Riches 3/1

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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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Kentucky Derby winner Street Sense won't compete in Belmont

Kentucky Derby winner Street Sense won't compete in the Belmont Stakes so trainer Carl Nafzger can prepare his colt for the Travers Stakes and Breeders' Cup Classic later this year.

"Mr. Tafel said let's not chase spilled water," Trainer Carl Nafzger said, according to AP. "We spilled our water during the Preakness. We got beat. We got outran."

"I know there's disappointment we're not going to the Belmont," Nafzger said. "But somewhere we want to make another stand."

The scratching of Street Sense leaves the Belmont with five probable starters, including Curlin and Kentucky Derby runner-up and Preakness third-place finisher Hard Spun. The other likely Belmont entries are Tiago, Slew's Tizzy and Imawildandcrazyguy.

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Great Hunter scratches from Belmont Stakes

Grade 1 winner GREAT HUNTER (Aptitude) has been withdrawn from consideration for the June 9 Belmont S. (G1) after a chip was discovered in his right-front ankle after five furlongs over Hollywood Park's Cushion Track on Thursday.

"He didn't cool out super well on Thursday, but we didn't think much of it at the time," O'Neill explained. "The next day, when the poultice was washed off his leg, we noticed some filling." X-rays uncovered the chip, which will be removed by surgery either Saturday or Sunday. O'Neill is estimating that Great Hunter will be out for 90 days.

"He's a strong, solid horse, so we'll be in good shape when he comes back."

Great Hunter, bred in Pennsylvania by Ivy Dell Stud, has scored victories in the Lane’s End Breeders’ Futurity (gr. I) and Robert B, Lewis Memorial (gr. II), while placing in the Bessemer Trust Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (gr. I), Del Mar Futurity and Best Pal (both gr. II), and Hollywood Juvenile Championship (gr. III).

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