ELMONT, N.Y. – After a setback that forced her to miss some time this summer, including the Grade 1 Personal Ensign Stakes at Saratoga, Dunbar Road looks to make a push toward the Breeders’ Cup Distaff when she runs in Sunday’s Grade 2, $150,000 Beldame Stakes at Belmont Park. After winning both the Shawnee Stakes at Churchill Downs in May and the Grade 3 Delaware Handicap by three lengths in July, Dunbar Road was diagnosed with an entrapped epiglottis. She underwent a surgical procedure performed by Dr. Patty Hogan at Hogan Equine, a facility in New Jersey. “Thanks to the talent of Dr. Patty Hogan in New Jersey, she looks perfectly normal now and she’s been training as good as ever,” trainer Chad Brown said of Dunbar Road. At 3, Dunbar Road won an allowance race and the Grade 2 Mother Goose at Belmont Park. Brown said the Beldame, a one-turn, 1 1/8-mile race, made more sense than bringing Dunbar Road back in Sunday’s Grade 1 Spinster at Keeneland, where the Breeders’ Cup Distaff will be held on Nov. 7. :: Enhance your handicapping with DRF’s Belmont Clocker Report “We were planning on the Breeders’ Cup all year,” Brown said. “I think it makes sense to run out of her stall at Belmont, then take her on the road closer to the Breeder’s Cup.” With Irad Ortiz Jr. sidelined due to testing positive for the coronavirus, Jose Ortiz has picked up the mount on Dunbar Road, who will break from post 2. Point of Honor, who finished second to Dunbar Road in last year’s Grade 1 Alabama at Saratoga, has two seconds and two thirds from four starts this year. Though her biggest wins have come around two turns, Point of Honor was beaten just a nose by longshot She’s a Julie in the Grade 1 Ogden Phipps, a one-turn, 1 1/16-mile race here in June. “For me, the Phipps was an odd race,” trainer George Weaver said. “It looked like for a good portion of the race she was going to hopefully be third, it didn’t look like she had any chance to win it. It might not have been until inside the sixteenth pole that she showed that grind-it-out style, and she just got nipped at the wire.” Weaver likes the 1 1/8 miles of the Beldame for Point of Honor and is hopeful of getting some pace in front of her. That pace could develop with Letruska and Nonna Madeline in the field. Letruska was a front-running winner of the Grade 3 Shuvee at Saratoga in her last start. Nonna Madeline ran eighth in the Shuvee. Trainer Todd Pletcher felt he made a tactical error taking Nonna Madeline off the pace in the Shuvee after she had won the Summer Colony attending the pace. Horologist, whose best races have come at Monmouth Park, is coming off a third-place finish behind Monomoy Girl and Lady Kate in the Grade 1 La Troienne at Churchill Downs on Sept. 4. The Beldame goes as race 8 on a 10-race card that begins at 12:50 p.m.