I'm going with Icebox/First Dude/Interactif/Drosselmeyer exacta box.

I'm all for bringing back Frank Sinatra over that crap she sang,thank God ABC blacked her out too and went to a commercial

The odds are regulating a bit... Ice Box was overbet all day today. He's no better on paper than Fly Down, who is a much better price.

Not sure what to make of this... thinking First Dude controls the pace, Fly Down runs well and who knows from there... Ice Box makes sense from a talent standpoint, but the pace does not figure to be quick.

Enjoy everyone!

LOL aggravating as Fly Down had thumped Drosselmeyer last out..........

Mott!!!! :)

Nice for Mike Smith too. That's one happy jockey right now. His face is gonna stay that way if he keeps grinning like that.

Blech!

That was very....uh....D'tara-ish...


if they can downgrade stakes taken off the grass, they should downgrade this one for overall sucktatude.

Congrats to Drosselmeyer. Nice win.

What to make of First Dude? I know he did all the work in both the Preakness and Belmont but didn't win either race. Game again down the stretch but just couldn't hang on. Is he turning into a "money pit" or am I looking into this too much?

Oink, oink!

That was a very commendable race.

With a capital C.

How Da' Tara-ish was it? He didn't steal the race, and he's by Distorted Humor out of Golden Ballet so as pedigrees go a G1 is not out of nowhere. He was a horse folks thought would get it together before now and has dicey feet which could explain some of his trouble. First Dude is the one that slowed that sucker down to a snail crawl.

Now as for overall sucktatude, that time was kinda crap. I could've won it in 2:31 and change. Underwhelming field, but good result for Winstar and Mott.

That was like watching the two last place teams in the WNBA play out the string...


There should be an asteriek (*) attached to this entire Triple Crown Series.

Winstar is now doomed to stand two triple crown race winning plugs...

The Governor of New York is getting armchair award presentation grief for referring to Drosselmeyer as "horse #7."

Trust me, I'm no fan of the current Governor of New York.

But I did realize as he was doing a pretty good general job of thanks......that he certainly works without a teleprompter or cue cards.

Should we appeal to have Eskendereya declared the TC winner in absentia?

He has a braile DRF

LOL


What a horrid race.

We should just have the tapes erased and the records sealed like they do in court

Over/under on the Beyer the Belmont gets?

Nice score, though, for those who used the ridiculous horse name angle

I'm glad it's all over.

Ditto

'Show me on the Form why the bad man picked you...'

Well done, Drosselmeyer. Clearly he liked the distance. And I'm very happy for Mike Smith. Above all else, everyone appears to have finished the race in good shape. Except Nick Zito . . .

From the land of the bizarre... Uptowncharlybrown was DQ'd from 5th to last due to losing the 8 lb. lead weight pad on the backstretch.

Given that he was 3 clear of 6th, the difference didn't mean anything to even the staunchest of weight proponents.

$30k weight pad.

The winner also dropped some useless weight.......his previous jockey.

It is clear that one of the conditions of Pattersons bailout loan to the nyra was that they play the JayZ rap song before the Belmont.He was caught trying to give the slots at the big A to jayz. abc showed great courage by going to a commercial during the song..

Imagine if the horse had won... with the all the feel-good stories surrounding the horse no less.

:D

Yeah no kidding... imagine trying to explain THAT to a bunch of people that don't normally watch racing.

LOL

Random side note... I love Maragh's Jamaican accent when they interview him.

Is it? I'm not so sure. Joe Tessitore also repeatedly referred to that whole business as a "fabulous story." Fabulous? The dude died. If anything it is a sad story. Perhaps it is a fabulous story for ESPN because they always want to have some 'pull at the heartstrings' angle, but that hardly makes it a "fabulous" story for anyone involved.

As for the race itself....it actually made me nostalgic for the Jazil-Bluegrass Cat-Sunriver race from a few years back....which is saying a lot.

just glad first dude didn't win, knowing who was there to watch him run.

Amen to that. They showed her on tv taking pictures and I threw up in my mouth a little.

:tro: :$:

If I didn't think so highly of Bill Mott, I probably would have vomited. So, for Mott's sake, I can live with it.

Next race....

I did not watch the races, nor have I kept up to date on this stuff. Who are you referring to?

Sarah Palin.

You easterners sure are a closed minded bunch.


Politics aside, I thought in her cap and sunglasses she was high on the "hot as Sandra Bullock" scale today.

zenyatta

now i'm vomiting in my mouth.