Re: Question for JB and Read on Bellamy Road (393 Views)
Posted by:
Chuckles_the_Clown2 (IP Logged)
Date: April 20, 2005 12:38PM
classhandicapper wrote:
> Jimbo,
>
> I don't know any pace handicapper that thinks Bellamy Road's
> race was phony from a pace perspective.
I think Bellamy's pace number is not as strong as indicated by the mass number producers. The same way I believed Spanish Chestnuts were better than the mass producers stated. Bellamy caught an extremely fast track and ran as fast as he had to in order to get the lead. He was fortunate in the circumstances. Theres a number of things that can sink him unless hes Secretariat. A contested pace is one of them. Its not going to be near as easy for him to run a 46 or 46.3 at Churchill.