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The fields for the 14 races that comprise the Breeders’ Cup World Championships really begin to come into focus in summer and fall and this regular feature will offer a snapshot profile of one of the previous weekend’s standout stars.

Tom Pedulla presents five key takeaways from the $750,000 Belmont Derby Invitational Stakes on Saturday at Belmont Park and other major developments this weekend.

The expectations run high when you're a $775,000 son of a Triple Crown winner and a half-brother to a champion, and so when the regally-bred Verifying outlasted a late surge from Raise Cain to win the $300,000 Grade 3 Indiana Derby, all the colt's connections could at last breathe a sigh of relief.

The wrap-up of Belmont Park’s summer meet has been enhanced in recent years by the rescheduling and renaming of what was once known as the Garden City Stakes as part of a turf-centric closing weekend at Big Sandy.

The fields for the 14 races that comprise the Breeders’ Cup World Championships really begin to come into focus in summer and fall and this regular feature will offer a snapshot profile of one of the previous weekend’s standout stars.

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