Dads Caps Class of True North Stakes

Two-time grade I winner Dads Caps appears to be the class in the $250,000 True North Stakes (gr. II) June 5 at Belmont Park, as a part of the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival.



Vincent Scuderi's 5-year-old homebred son of Discreet Cat   is coming off his second consecutive victory in the Carter Handicap (gr. I) at Aqueduct Racetrack, which he won by 1 1/2 lengths April 4.

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The Rudy Rodriguez trainee leads the field of eight horses with $978,650 in career earnings and will break from post 5 in the six-furlong dirt test with Jose Ortiz, carrying the co-top weight of 124 pounds.



Fellow graded stakes winner Favorite Tale, who won last year's Gallant Bob Stakes (gr. III), and graded stakes-placed Captain Serious also are top weighted. Three-time grade III winner Clearly Now, who followed a seventh-place finish in the Carter Handicap with a second in the May 10 Diablo Stakes at Belmont, will carry 122 pounds.



The horse with arguably the most momentum entered, albeit at lower levels, is Stonestreet Stables'Rock Fall, who will break from the outside with Javier Castellano for trainer Todd Pletcher.



After dropping his maiden debut in April 2014, the 4-year-old son of Speightstown   is on a four-race winning streak, including a nine-length romp in six-furlong optional claiming event at Keeneland last time out April 18.



Stakes winner Stallwalkin' Dude, graded stakes-placed Tenango, and allowance/optional claiming winner Eastwood, fourth in last year's True North, complete the field.