Re: SMARTY WILL LOSE THE BELMONT (528 Views)
Posted by:
shanahan (IP Logged)
Date: May 17, 2004 10:40AM
there's value, hopefully, behind smarty. As a relative novice (just a player since the mid-90's), I have not seen a horse - except cigar -completely destroy fields of otherwise good animals. I tried and tried to figure out a way he could not win Saturday or in the Derby - there isn't. And the elusive quality comments , compared to sychophantic talk of biancone's miler, have no historical context yet...so why bother? EQ gets routers at 17%+ at this early in the game, let it go...the dam throws routers too, get over it. My gut is that there is a certain AP Indy 3 yr old, running this wkend, that will show us if he can finish 2nd to smarty on his home track. And I believe it was a 70-1 sot who won Belmont after winning on Preakness undercard recently also...I think there is value behind smarty...even at 2-5.