Sports shorts
Golf Huey cards an ace
Ron Huey scored a hole-in-one Sunday at the Summit Inn Golf Course, acing No. 5, a par-3, 148-yard hole, with an 8-iron. Ryan Kindervater and Ken Lucas witnessed the shot.
Auto racing
Roaring Knob winners
Robbie Black was the only repeat winner Saturday at Roaring Knob Motorsports Complex with his victory in the Garry’s Auto Sales Late Models.
Lemont Furnace’s Mark Peck started in fifth place, but pushed to the front on the back straight and then held on to win the 12-lap Ft. Necessity Garage Chargers. Nolan Dolan led from the beginning to take the checkered flag in the Curt’s Family Restaurant Super Late Models 25-lap feature.
Shawn Davis won the Brooks Auto Group Modifieds 15-lap feature. Tom Newman was victorious in the GNH Trucking Street Stocks.
Horse Racing
No ‘Sense’ in Belmont?
BALTIMORE (AP) – No Triple, no buzz.
And maybe no Kentucky Derby winner for the Belmont Stakes, either.
On the morning after Curlin edged Street Sense by a head in the Preakness, trainer Carl Nafzger said he’s leaning against running Derby winner Street Sense in the Belmont on June 9.
“Right now, I don’t think we probably will,” Nafzger said Sunday.
“There’s not really any reason to go there right now.”
Nafzger could change his mind after talking with owner James Tafel, but even if Street Sense shows up the Belmont won’t be the same without a Triple on the line.
Racing fans were getting used to Triple tries at Belmont, with six in the previous 10 years. But this is the third year in a row without an attempt to crown the first Triple Crown champion since Affirmed in 1978.
However, an intriguing field for the 11/2-mile Belmont remains possible – even the filly Rags to Riches is under consideration.
Curlin is a rising 3-year-old star after just five career starts, and likely would be the favorite. The chestnut colt won his first three starts by a combined 281/2 lengths, then finished third in the Derby despite a troubled trip in the early stages.
Hard Spun, second in the Derby and third in the Preakness, likely will try again in the Belmont.
Other Belmont contenders include four Derby starters – Imawildandcrazyguy (fourth), Tiago (seventh), Nobiz Like Shobiz (10th) and Great Hunter (13th). Also on the list are Chelokee, trainer Michael Matz’s colt who won the Barbaro Stakes on Saturday, Lone Star Derby winner Slew’s Tizzy and Cristobal, who has run twice in France.
Rags to Riches, trained by Todd Pletcher, is the nation’s top filly coming off a victory in the Kentucky Oaks. Pletcher’s Triple Crown race record stands at 0-for-28 after Circular Quay finished fifth and King of the Roxy was sixth in the Preakness.