LADIE'S PRO OUTGUNS WESTBOUND IN THE BELMONT CLASSIC IN A THRILLING TWO-WAY CONTEST
By Graham Potter | Friday, July 18, 2025
They were expected to provide a one-two result in the Listed Belmont Classic over 2200m and Ladie’s Pro and Westbound did just that with the Grant and Alana Williams trained Ladie’s Pro landing her second successive feature race win when getting the better of the Michael Grantham trained Westbound by 0.28 lengths.
Ladie’s Pro, who saluted in the Belmont Oaks in her previous start, jumped as the $1.55 race favourite with Westbound relatively close up on the second line of betting at $2.60 … with a big gap in the betting after that with no other runner quoted at odds of less than $16.
The race then panned out exactly as the betting indicated it would … with that 0.28 margin between the first and second favourite with the third placed Pony Up ($20) trailing in a full 8.73 lengths behind the winner.
With no speed on early, the $101 rank outsider Royal Guardian took the field out of the straight for the first time ahead of Pony Up with Westbound settling in third place and Ladie’s Pro in fourth, just a length behind Westbound.
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