blanket finish

The horse was generally overlooked by most, but he ran a smart race on the rail and poked his head in front in the final strides and held off Sierra Leone and Forever Young in the blanket finish.

The other qualifier Saturday was the $750,000 Wood Memorial at Aqueduct, where long shot Lord Miles won a three-horse blanket finish and paid $120.50 to win.

His retirement will be a blow to the chances of race leader Evenepoel, 22, from Belgium, who retained his two minutes and 41 seconds advantage over Slovenia's Primoz Roglic after stage 11's blanket finish.

Saturday’s result: Seaside Dancer got away with a soft trip on the lead but was run down near the wire while just holding second in a three-way blanket finish.

But nobody short of someone with bionic stop-action eyes could have split the blanket finish in the race.