The owners of Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird stopped by the gelding’s barn at Churchill Downs for a quick visit before heading to New York for Belmont Stakes week.

Mark Allen and Dr. Leonard Blach also met with trainer Chip Woolley a day before Mine That Bird’s final workout in preparation for Saturday’s 1½-mile Belmont.

“It looks like he has put on a little weight,” Allen said Sunday after seeing Mine That Bird for the first time since the gelding ran second in the Preakness Stakes on May 16. “For as hard as he has run and the shipping, I am real happy with the way he looks.”

While the owners were New York-bound, Woolley leaves for the city Tuesday, with Mine That Bird scheduled to be shipped via plane — not trailer — on Wednesday.

Mine That Bird, with regular exercise rider Charlie Figueroa up, galloped 1½ miles Sunday.

“He was a little more into the bit today,” Woolley said. “That should set him up for his breeze tomorrow. He’ll work a half-mile and gallop an eighth past the wire with Calvin (Borel) on him.”

Belmont field may be nine: A field of 10 3-year-olds is shaping up for the 141st running of the Belmont, although trainer Nick Zito has indicated that one of his three possible starts — Nowhere to Hide — may not make the race. The nine all-but-definites are Kentucky Derby winner and Preakness runner-up Mine The Bird, Flying Private (19th in the Derby, fourth in the Preakness); Derby runners Chocolate Candy (fifth); Summer Bird (sixth); Dunkirk (11th); and Mr. Hot Stuff; Preakness runner Luv Gov (eighth); and Brave Victory, Charitable Man and Miner’s Escape.

A little or a lot?: The largest Belmont field was 15 in 1983, when Caveat defeated Slew o’ Gold. Next were 14-horse fields in 1875 (Calvin beat Aristides) and in 1996 (Editor’s Note beat Skip Away).