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Freedom Child seeks to crash Belmont Stakes showdown

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With Kentucky Derby winner Orb and Preakness champ Oxbow poised for a Belmont Stakes showdown on Saturday, Freedom Child is drawing attention as a potential spoiler in the last of 2013's Triple Crown races.

Freedom Child didn't race in either the Derby or the Preakness. In fact, his last race saw him winning the Peter Pan Stakes by 13 1/4 lengths at Belmont Park.

"These are the opportunities that really get us all out of bed in the morning," said Terry Finley, who manages the West Point Thoroughbreds partnership that owns Freedom Child.

"So as it relates to this colt, he's really given us a good vibe overall. He's a May 18th foal, and he's gotten really better and better in each start."

Trainer Tom Albertrani made his intentions clear after Freedom Child drew the number two post in the 14-horse field for the 1 1/2-mile race dubbed the Test of the Champion.

"I don't know if he is a horse that wants to be behind horses because he's got a free running style," he said. "He'll probably want to find himself clear going into the first turn."

Freedom Child might have ended up in the Kentucky Derby, but his Wood Memorial in April was ruined by a starting-gate incident in which he got out of the gate so slowly that stewards declared him a non-runner, with all bets on him refunded.

"Those kinds of things you just kind of shake your head and it just was a bang-bang issue," Finley said. "The starter, he pressed the button just as the horse on the inside of us broke through the gate, and as a result, our assistant starter reached down and really kind of tightened up on our strap and, as a result, when we broke he was holding on for two or three strides."

Even so, Freedom Child got to within a few lengths of the lead before tiring badly.

So he failed to make the Derby field and instead won the Peter Pan on the weekend between the Derby and Preakness.

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