10/12/2020
2 BEL The Knickerbocker (GII)
$150.000 3yo&Up 1 1/8m InTuf 3yo 121lbs Older 124lbs +penalties
It was a rainy day in Elmont, NY and that made the BEL turf course a soft lawn… for Mb Stables, that just didn’t matter as Divos Moon Shot took Monday’s Knickerbocker (GII) by two lengths in a final time of 1:50.27 for the mile and an eighth distance. Unamerican took the second spot, a quarter-length in front of the winner’s stable mate, Napoleanic War. Mucho Baked was a head back in fourth.
The winner made a bold move to take the lead into the lane and continued on well without as much as a whimper from the rest of the field, looking much the best to me.
Divos Moon Shot is a bay 3yo gelded son of Red Headed Divo – Shoot The Moon, by Henry Haynes, and he was bred in NY by Twin TowersRacing. Mb Stables acquired this one via Private Purchase for $125.000 back in Mar of this year and he now has four wins, three of those this season since the acquisition, and he has $302.760 in lifetime earnings.
$2 Mutuel Prices:
| 9 – Divos Moon Shot | 7.10 | 4.00 | 2.90 |
| 3 – Unamerican | 5.30 | 3.50 | |
| 6 – Napoleanic War | 3.70 |
Track: Soft Time: :492 1:141 1:383 1:501
$1 Exacta: 9 – 3 Paid 18.70 $1 Trifecta: 9 – 3 – 6 Paid 64.90
Scratched: Im Special, Lucky Storm
Categories: Grade II, STAKES ARTICLES
