After being bumped at the break, Yawkey Way, trained by Mechanicville's Chad Brown, suffered her first career defeat when third -beaten just a head for second - in the Friendly Beauty Stakes for statebreds at Belmont.

The winner, Saltamontes, and runner-up Queen's Harbor both broke their maidens at Saratoga this summer.

The Wheelaway filly Saltamontes - whose name translates to "grasshopper" in Spanish - is now 2-for-2 lifetime for trainer Rudy Rodriguez.

Brown did score his first winner of the Belmont fall meet later in the card, as his Sea Of Liquidity won the ninth race, a maiden claimer. The gelding was claimed out of the race by Tim Ice.