Linda Rice on Belmont Contender Max Player

Linda Rice hopes to get her first win in a Triple Crown race with Max Player in Saturday's Belmont S. We visit the duo at their home barn at Belmont.

Rice is as meticulous as they come in preparing her horses. The conditioner knows every detail about each and every horse in her care and maps out very specific plans for them. But, as organized as Rice is, she is equally as adaptable, as every horse trainer must be, and those qualities have served her well as she prepares Max Player (Honor Code) for a step up to the big leagues in an unconventional edition of the GI Belmont S. Saturday.

Max Player will break from post three on Saturday with Joel Rosario in the irons for the first time. Rosario looks for back-to-back Belmont wins after capturing last year's renewal with Sir Winston (Awesome Again). He also won the race in 2014 with Tonalist (Tapit).

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