What top trainers had to say about a likely rainy Belmont Stakes

SARATOGA SPRINGS — Neither Ken McPeek nor D. Wayne Lukas sounds too worried that it’s going to rain on their parade this weekend.

The Accuweather forecast includes a couple of thundershowers Friday with an 84% chance of precipitation. On Saturday, a sunny start is expected to give way to clouds and then showers and thunderstorms.

The chance of rain on Belmont Stakes day is 94%.

Lukas, the 88-year-old trainer of Preakness winner Seize the Grey, told The Post he doesn’t spend a lot of time worrying about hypotheticals but, “As dry as I see everything around here, a shower tonight would be really welcome over there on the racetrack.”

Seize the Grey broke his maiden last July on a sloppy track at Saratoga, beating Belmont Stakes contender Dornoch by 1³/₄ lengths.

McPeek didn’t say he’d welcome the rain but his Kentucky Derby winner, Mystik Dan, is renowned as one of the top slop runners in the game.

He won the Arkansas Derby by 8 lengths on a muddy track in February and came in second in the Preakness in the Pimlico mud three weeks ago.

“More than anything, he’s a horse that very little affects him,” McPeek said. “So I don’t think it’s so much that he likes the slop as much as he doesn’t mind it. Maybe some other horses won’t handle it as well, but we know he’ll handle it.”

Some of the other Belmont contenders have had success on off-tracks.

Todd Pletcher’s Antiquarian has a win in February at Fair Grounds.

Sierra Leone won the Remsen on a muddy track at Aqueduct last December.