Brown-trained trio line up in Saturday’s G2 Fort Marcy
At 0h02, on April 29, 2021 • By BELMONT PARK
Four-time Eclipse Award-winning trainer Chad Brown will saddle a trio of contenders making their seasonal debuts in Saturday’s Grade 2, $200,000 Fort Marcy, a nine-furlong inner turf test for older horses at Belmont Park, sending out Rockemperor, Tribhuvan and Devamani.
The Fort Marcy is slated as Race 5 on Saturday’s 11-race card, which also includes the Grade 3, $200,000 Westchester in Race 3 and the Grade 2, $200,000 Sheepshead Bay in Race 10.
Madaket Stables, Michael Dubb, Wonder Stables, Michael E. Kisber and Bethlehem Stables’ multiple Grade 1-placed Rockemperor will exit post 2 under Manny Franco in search of his first graded score.
The 5-year-old Holy Roman Emperor horse has hit the board in a trio of Grade 1 events, including a third in the 2019 Belmont Derby, a second in the Manhattan in July at Belmont and a third two starts back in the Turf Classic in September at Churchill Downs.
Rockemperor wintered at Payson Park in Florida before shipping to New York, where he breezed a half-mile in 50.03 seconds on the Belmont dirt training track on April 24.
“He breezed here once and looked great,” said Brown’s New York-based assistant Dan Stupp. “Just by watching him gallop around, it appears that he’s awfully full of himself. He’s been galloping very forwardly and it looks like he’s doing very well.”
