Take Your Guns easily took another step through his eligibility conditions for trainer Chad Brown in race 4 at Belmont, lagging far back early in the 1 1/16-mile, second-level optional claimer and then inhaling his compettion with a wide move. He was confidently ridden by Joel Rosario.

A 4-year-old son of Blame, Take Your Guns is now 3 for 5, and 2 for 2 this year. He appears headed to the stakes ranks.

Take Your Guns paid $4.30 in the five horse-field. He was timed in 1:42.62 after lively splits of 45.55, 1:09.98, and 1:35.92.

Owned and bred by John Gunther, Take Your Guns is a half-brother to four-time graded winner Last Gunfighter, a winner of 9 of 21 starts and more than $1.2 million, and two-time graded winner Tiger Moth, who races for Brad Cox and is 6 for 24 with earnings of $680,000.