Unchained Melody Wins Mother Goose Stakes at Belmont Park

The $250,000 G2 Mother Goose Stakes was contested Saturday, July 1 at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York - a 1 1/16-mile dirt test for three-year-old fillies. It was 2-1 co-race favorite Unchained Melody that made the most of her stakes debut - providing her connections a gate-to-wire win by an impressive three lengths. The other entry sent off at 2-1 odds, Lockdown finished second in the field of seven with 7-1 shot Moana getting in for third. My Miss Tapit was fourth while Vexatious, Lights of Medina, and Spanish Harlem completing the order of finish.