Sure you have to have the horse to make things happen as a jockey, but that was high-level stuff there from Jose Ortiz in the featured third race just now at Belmont Park.
Javier Castellano thought he was getting through between horses with odds-on Your Love in midstretch of this six-furlong, filly-and-mare allowance, but that didn't happen. As the mildly tiring leader Yorkiepoo Princess held her line on the inside, Ortiz, on Nisha to the outside, timed the closing of the gap between horses perfectly, keeping Your Love from ever getting up into the hole. By the time Nisha cleared Yorkiepoo Princess and Your Love found room there was only about 50 yards left in the race. Game over.
Nisha, a 4-year-old First Samurai filly trained by Jeremiah Englehart, ran six furlongs on a muddy track in 1:11.70 and paid $6.10 to win.