Re: I Will Be the First (1012 Views)
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TreadHead (IP Logged)
Date: May 21, 2018 08:18AM
Again with the racing fan experts, everyone seems to think he was tired, but after if you saw the video of him basically dressage prance stepping thru the backside as he was led back to his stall right after the race you would see that he clearly was not that tired by the effort at all. Visual facts seem to line up with Smith's story.
Still a lot of things that can go wrong between now and the Belmont, to be sure, and he's no shoe-in to win the race. But of the dozen or so we've had the last couple decades, he has as good a chance as any because of his physical size and speed ability.
Will be interesting to see if someone enters a sprinter to try to run him out of the race and see if he can truly rate off pace. That's going to be their best chance to beat him, no other stakes-quality route horse has the kind of speed that will bother him.