Mucho Macho Man gets new shoes, jockey for Belmont Stakes

“These are more flexible,” trainer Kathy Ritvo said. “It’s more of an extension of his foot.”

Ramon Dominguez, who won the Eclipse Award for most outstanding jockey in North America last year, has replaced Rajiv Maragh as Mucho Macho Man’s jockey.

“I think (Dominguez) fit the horse real well when he worked him the other day,” Ritvo said. “He’s patient. He has great hands.”

Mucho Macho Man finished third in the Louisiana Derby and Kentucky Derby before finishing sixth in the Preakness.

TAKING A WALK: Retired jockey Richard Migliorie, now a TV analyst for the New York Racing Association, said that he is planning to walk the Belmont Park track with Jesus Castanon, Shackleford’s jockey, to help him understand the nuances of the mile-and-a-half oval.

“Where the six-furlong pole is at most tracks, that’s where the mile pole is at Belmont,” Migliorie said. (When horses reach the mile pole, they have a mile to run to reach the finish line.)

Castanon said he hasn’t ridden at Belmont since riding the final two weeks of the meet three years ago.

He said he has been studying charts and videos of past Belmont Stakes.

In the Preakness, Castanon earned his first Grade I victory. He said his business has picked up somewhat since then. “I’ve been getting on more quality horses,” he said.

Castanon rode regularly at the Fair Grounds for three seasons, starting with the 2006-2007 season — the first meet in New Orleans after Katrina.

REPOLE SEES PARITY: Mike Repole, owner of long shot Stay Thirsty, said he sees a wide-open race.

“The whole year has been upside down,” Repole said. “Shackleford paid $27; Animal Kingdom paid $43. It’s an impossible race to handicap. If you look at the pedigree (Stay Thirsty) has, he has the pedigree to go two miles, not a mile and a half. You’re asking these horses to go a distance the first time in their life and probably the last time in their life.

“I think every horse in the field should be 12-1.”

ODDS AND ENDS: Eight horses from the Kentucky Derby, including the first seven finishers, are in the Belmont field. … Derby and Preakness winners have met in the Belmont 21 times. The Preakness winner won 10 of those 21 Belmonts, and the Derby winner won five. The last Derby winner to win a Belmont with the Preakness winner in the field was Swale in 1984. The last Preakness winner to win a Belmont with the Derby winner in the field was Afleet Alex in 2005. … With a victory in this Belmont, Derby winner Animal Kingdom would become 12th horse, not counting the 11 Triple Crown winners, to win the Derby-Belmont double. With a victory in this Belmont, Shackleford would become the 19th horse, not counting the Triple Crown winners, to win the Preakness-Belmont double.

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