Winners Laugh has serious chance in $100K Affirmed Success
At 0h01, on April 20, 2021 • By BELMONT PARK
Barry Schwartz’s Winners Laugh will step up to stakes company for the first time in Friday’s $100,000 Affirmed Success, a six-furlong main track sprint for New York-breds 4-years-old and up at Belmont Park in the first stakes of the 48-day spring/summer meet.
Trained by Horacio DePaz, the 4-year-old homebred son of Broken Vow made a winning debut last out in a six-furlong state-bred maiden sprint on March 7 at Aqueduct Racetrack.
Winners Laugh is a half-brother to Amundson, a stakes winner also trained by DePaz.
DePaz said Friday’s test will be a difficult one for the lightly-raced colt, who faces a salty field of five veteran rivals.
“We’ve only ran him once and the logical spot would have been an allowance race, but it didn’t fill,” said DePaz. “This felt like the next logical spot. It’s a deep field and an ambitious spot, but he’s classy enough to be able to handle something like that.”
Trevor McCarthy retains the mount from post 3.
The Affirmed Success is slated as Race 8 on Friday’s nine-race card. First post is 1 p.m.
