After hitting the board in 3-of-6 graded starts, Irvin S. Naylor’s Belfast Banter broke through at the highest level with a smart score in Wednesday’s Grade 1, $150,000 A.P. Smithwick Memorial, a 2 ...

Belfast Banter, center, with jockey Barry Foley in green with a yellow cap, jumps a fence as he flows in the middle of the field on the way to the win in the A.P. Smithwick Memorial, a Grade I race ...

Belfast Banter was making his fourth start at the grade 1 level, with three previous unplaced finishes in 2022, and visited the winner's circle for the first time since 2021 at Aintree.

After hitting the board in three of six graded starts, Irvin S. Naylor's Belfast Banter broke through at the highest level with a smart score in the July 19 $150,000 A.P. Smithwick Memorial (NSA-G1), ...