Poker: Pass the Hat leads Bill Mott exacta

Poker: Pass the Hat leads Bill Mott exacta

Pass the Hat used a pace-pressing trip before staving off a late challenge from stablemate Capitol Hill to capture Sunday's Grade 3, $300,000 Poker, a one-mile inner turf test for older horses on closing day of the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival. Both Pin Oak Stud's Pass the Hat and Tranquility Lake Farms' Capitol Hill are trained by Hall of Famer Bill Mott. The two were separated by a nose on the wire after Pass the Hat pestered the 1-5 mutuel …