Keith McCalmont

​August Dawn Farm’s Maple Leaf Mel remained perfect through five starts with a powerful gate-to-wire effort to provide her namesake trainer Melanie Giddings her first career stakes win in Saturday’s Grade 3, $175,000 Victory Ride, a 6 1/2-furlong sprint for sophomore fillies, at Belmont Park.

Mary Eddy

LSU Stables’ Far Bridge endured his share of bad luck when second in two starts at the graded level, but found no trouble in securing an off-the-pace Grade 1 triumph under Jose Ortiz in Saturday’s $750,000 Belmont Derby Invitational, a 10-furlong test for sophomores over the inner turf, at Belmont Park.

Keith McCalmont

Breeder Glen Hill Farm and Mrs. John Magnier’s Irish-bred European shipper Aspen Grove, patiently handled by Oisin Murphy, arrived in the final strides to capture Saturday’s Grade 1, $500,000 Fasig-Tipton Belmont Oaks Invitational, at Belmont Park.

Ryan Martin

Whisper Hill Farm’s Kentucky homebred Charge It ran exactly how his 3-5 odds suggested he would, setting a moderate tempo down the backstretch and drawing away in the stretch under little urging to earn his second graded win in Saturday’s 137th running of the 10-furlong Grade 2, $350,000 Suburban for older horses, at Belmont Park.

Keith McCalmont

Victory Racing Partners’ More Than Looks made the grade with a last-to-first score under Hall of Famer John Velazquez in Friday’s Grade 3, $250,000 Manila, a one-mile Widener turf test for sophomores, at Belmont Park.

Keith McCalmont

​Whatlovelookslike made her stakes debut a winning one under a sharp ride by Flavien Prat in Tuesday’s inaugural running of the $125,000 Port Washington, a 1 1/16-mile inner turf test for older New York-bred fillies and mares, at Belmont Park.