Re: Belmont possibles (724 Views)
Posted by:
ringato3 (IP Logged)
Date: May 18, 2015 04:28PM
Pizza,
As a guy who sort of likes Frosted and will be playing him in the Belmont as my second horse behind Materiality, your statement is still "silly". (there are more accurate but less politically correct ones)
He ran OK in the Derby. I would agree that the "backwards move" on figures has to be looked at through the lens of the trip, which was less than ideal, and the fact that other than he and Materiality, nobody else made up ground. What does that mean? It could mean he ran well, but it could also mean that on that day the top 3 were better than everybody else by quite a bit and that is why they were alone at the end.
Make no mistake about it, the race Frosted ran in the Derby ain't getting it done in the Belmont, unless none of the fast ones show up or run their race. He has to run back to his Wood, or a race very similar to it.
Rob