Dunkirk under consideration for Belmont

Trainer Todd Pletcher said Saturday morning that Coolmore's DUNKIRK

(Unbridled's Song), 11th in the Kentucky Derby (G1), is under consideration for

the 141st running of the $1 million Belmont S. (G1) on June 6.

"He is possible," Pletcher said from his barn at Belmont Park. "We'll make a

determination after he breezes, which will probably be sometime next weekend."

Unraced at two, the gray colt won his first two starts at Gulfstream Park

this year in impressive fashion, then finished second to Quality Road (Elusive

Quality) in the Florida Derby (G1) on March 28 prior to his Derby run. After

stumbling at the start in the Derby, Dunkirk was checked hard and jostled in

traffic approaching the first turn.

Pletcher also said that multiple Grade 1-placed MUNNINGS (Speightstown), who

returned to the races this year with a good runner-up finish in a tough seven-furlong

allowance on the Kentucky Oaks (G1) undercard at Churchill Downs, was being

pointed toward the $250,000 Woody Stephens (G2) on the Belmont undercard.

The conditioner will run Sham S. (G3) runner-up TAKE THE POINTS (Even the

Score) in next Saturday's Preakness S. (G1), and Pletcher said he was intrigued

by the possibility of Kentucky Oaks star RACHEL ALEXANDRA (Medaglia d'Oro)

taking on colts in the second leg of the Triple Crown.

"That filly has been most impressive," said Pletcher, who is the most recent

trainer to saddle a filly to victory in a Triple Crown race, having won the 2007

Belmont with Rags to Riches. "It takes a special kind of filly to win one of the

classics, and she looks like she is special."