BELMONT Park hosted five graded stakes last Saturday. It’s called the Stars and Stripes Racing Festival. It had plenty of stars. Some predictable, some shocking and none bigger or better than Oscar Performance.

Amerman Racing’s homebred lulled 10 rivals, including Irish raiders Homesman and Whitecliffsofdover, into a 10-furlong procession behind him in the Belmont Derby, a $1.2 million turf stakes race for three-year-olds.