Oct. 19 Insights: Locked Makes His Return at the Belmont Big A Meet

1st-BAQ, $95k, OC/N2X, 3yo/up, 7f, 12:10p.m. ET
LOCKED (Gun Runner) will make his return to the races here after not being seen since suffering a knee injury which knocked him off the Triple Crown trail this past spring. Racing with first-time Lasix, and made the 4-5 morning line favorite, he's been working steadily over the Saratoga training track with two of his last three moves being bullet efforts. Last year's GI Breeders' Futurity winner and GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile third will have John Velazquez in the irons. TJCIS PPs

3rd-KEE, $100k, Msw, 2yo, 5 1/2fT, 2:04p.m. ET
Fling Ready (More Than Ready), a $350,000 KEESEP acquisition in 2023 from his late sire's final crop, will debut here for NBS Stable and trainer Kelsey Danner. Out of Moonlight Romance (Liason), who earned her black-type via the Kentucky Downs Juvenile Turf Sprint Stakes, his dam is herself out of a half-sister to four other black type runners. Bred by SF Bloodstock, Hollymount Stud, and Harry Field Bloodstock, the colt has been on the work tab religiously up at Turfway Park, and is a 12-1 morning line chance. TJCIS PPs