Re: Figure for the Belmont (513 Views)
Posted by:
fasteddie (IP Logged)
Date: June 07, 2004 09:05AM
My "guess" would be that Bird ran a 0, Smarty a 1, Royal a 4, and everybody else collapsed! Kudos to the Smarty team for holding him together for so long.
It is time to shorten the Belmont; even older horses in this country do not run a mile and a half on dirt anymore. The Jockey Club Gold Cup USED to be 2, then 1 1/2, now it's 1 1/4, all because the BC classic is the Holy Grail!