TGJB Wrote:
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> CTC-- did Bellamy Road getting stopped on after
> the Derby and Travers tell you anything at all?

If you're saying he was off due to infirmity/injury in his Derby and Travers due to the physical pounding he took in the Wood, I'd have to answer: "Yeah Jerry, its possible he knocked something amiss." At the time everyone said Dominguez took him in hand and was blowing kisses to the crowd. Lip readers caught him talking to Bellamy in the Wood winners circle saying: "You'll look good in a blanket of roses Bellamy...even better than Slew looked."

He had a cannon bone issue is what I understood. Thats supposed to be an immaturity type issue that goes away with time or treatment. Did it develop into something more? If it did, I never heard.

I don't know. Where is Survivalist now and has he tried two turns again? To my eye, there were a lot of horses from that card that didn't come back. Wheres Don Six? Medallist? Forest Danger? I'm not altogether sure that being beat up on that rock hard and lightning fast surface is evidence they ran career tops though. Did it hurt them? Yeah, on attrition it looks like maybe it did. Was Bellamy less horse in the Derby and Travers than the Wood? Well yeah, but he faced better horses and had to run farther. He even had it all his own way in the Travers and still couldn't pull it off.

Did Zito not realize something was amiss? I suppose thats possible.