Hot Rod Charlie being run in Belmont in memory of Jake Panus
Belmont Stakes entrant Hot Rod Charlie takes a training run on the main track ahead of the 153rd running of the Belmont Stakes horse race, Wednesday, June 2, 2021, at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Belmont Stakes entrant Hot Rod Charlie takes a training run on the main track ahead of the 153rd running of the Belmont Stakes horse race, Wednesday, June 2, 2021, at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Belmont Stakes entrant Hot Rod Charlie, front, takes a training run on the main track ahead of the 153rd running of the Belmont Stakes horse race, Wednesday, June 2, 2021, at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Trainer Doug O’Neill holds up the saddle cloth for Belmont Stakes entrant Hot Rod Charlie at Belmont Park, Thursday, June 3, 2021 , in Elmont, N.Y., featuring the initials of Jake Panus, who was killed in a car crash last year at age 16. O’Neill and some of Hot Rod Charlie’s owners have embraced Panus’ memory. (AP Photo/Stephen Whyno)
Belmont Stakes entrant Hot Rod Charlie takes a training run on the main track ahead of the 153rd running of the Belmont Stakes horse race, Wednesday, June 2, 2021, at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Belmont stakes entrant Hot Rod Charlie, left, and his companion horse Lava Man, right, are led onto the main track for a training run ahead of the 153rd running of the Belmont Stakes horse race, Wednesday, June 2, 2021, at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Belmont stakes entrant Hot Rod Charlie, left, and his companion horse Lava Man, right, are led to the main track for a training run ahead of the 153rd running of the Belmont Stakes horse race, Wednesday, June 2, 2021, at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Belmont stakes entrant Hot Rod Charlie, left, and his companion horse Lava Man, right, are led to the main track for a training run ahead of the 153rd running of the Belmont Stakes horse race, Wednesday, June 2, 2021, at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)