Re: Belmont possibles (572 Views)
Posted by:
T Severini (IP Logged)
Date: May 19, 2015 08:30AM
Because Materiality missed the break and Upstart did not fire at all.
The Talking Heads are all over the "California Horses" this season but I'm not with them. I thought that the clear best race of the Triple Crown Prep season was the Florida Derby run over a demanding track. No other prep race compared, it's just that the previous race is only an indicator for the next one.
It didn't work out.
Run it again!
toppled Wrote:
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> Why would you want to torture yourself and have
> them run the Derby over again. If they could,
> then American Pharoah would just keep beating you
> over & over again. He wasn't in the more
> vulnerable position he is in the Belmont, because
> he had only 2 easy races going in. Now he's being
> asked to race his 3rd race in 5 weeks off another
> race only 3 weeks prior to his Derby. If he loses
> it will be from fatigue & possibly the distance,
> not because some horse you though was better than
> him when he was in the 1st pointed to race & least
> likely to lose got what you believe was a
> compromised trip. The best horse won the Derby,
> the best horse won the Preakness. He's the best
> horse in Belmont, but how much juice is left in
> the lemon? We'll find out soon enough.
> Anyone who still thinks he could have been beaten
> in the Derby by any one of the other horses hasn't
> learned anything from the 1st 2 legs of the Triple
> Crown.