Trainer Chad Brown won his second straight Belmont Park spring/summer individual meet title, while Jose Ortiz posted two victories on closing day, Sunday, to clinch the riding title at the meet for a second straight year. Michael Dubb was the meet's leading owner with 18 victories and earnings of $1,121,189.
Brown, NYRA's leading trainer in 2015 and 2016, saddled 40 winners from 148 starts for an impressive 27.03% win rate, posting earnings of more than $4.9 million. His entries finished on the board more than 56% of the time. Ortiz tallied 65 wins with earnings of more than $6.5 million for the 54-day meet, outdistancing his brother, Irad Ortiz, Jr., who was second with 61 wins. Dubb's win total was eight more than the next closest owner, Paul Pompa, Jr. Dubb has finished atop NYRA's year-end owner standings three straight years and five overall, taking home top honors in 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015 and 2016.
With the Belmont meet in the books, New York racing shifts upstate to Saratoga for their summer meet, which begins Friday, July 21.
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