I get why they're going to MTH--the Let's Go guys live right down the road and they're looking for a run over the track before the Haskell. Maybe when he gets beat in the latter they'll switch surfaces... or retire him.

prestigeous lol?

Yeah prestigeous like the NY Knicks! :-)

You are the only reason I don't have the worst spelling on message boards. If I was home I would have been able to use a dictionary before posting. Believe it or not, I don't have one in my Belmont office.

yeah, he 'likes the spacing'....what else is new? does anyone plan for less races per horse than todd pletcher?

I always thought you were one of the best spellers

He is terrible

OOOOOOOOOO

That sort of aggressive campaigning is going to require several months of recovery. Maybe BC Mile, but has the Stakes schedule for Gulfstream been released yet?

Mylute a no for Belmont..

6/8: BELMONT STAKES

Oxbow (Lukas/Stevens)
Will Take Charge (Lukas/Court)
Revolutionary (Pletcher/Castellano)
Overanalyze (Pletcher)
Palace Malice (Pletcher/Smith)
Giant Finish (Dutrow)
Unlimited Budget (Pletcher)
Freedom Child (Albertrani/Saez)
Always in a Tiz (Schettino/Cohen)
Golden Soul (Stewart/Albarado)
Incognito (McLaughlin)

Orb (McGaughey/Rosario)
Code West (Baffert/Napravnik)
Vyjack (R. Rodriguez)
Midnight Taboo (Pletcher)

Itsmyluckyday is not running in the Belmont...going to take on Verrazano in the Pegasus.

With the copycat nature of horse racing, just imagine if he had won the Kentucky Derby with the way he was trained.

Itsmyluckyday was given almost all of February off. He went into the Florida Derby off a layoff, and came into the Kentucky Derby with probably the most bizarre/conservative training pattern in the entire history of the Derby. However, before the Preakness, he worked 47 flat at Monmouth.

It kind of felt like trainer Eddie Pleasa Jr. didn't think this was a classic distance horse ... as he was clearly managing him like a horse who he wanted to have peaking going into the Preakness and Haskell (9f at his home track) instead of a horse being primed for the Derby.

Itsmyluckyday has run 3 triple digit Beyer figures in fast track dirt routes this year ... current division leader Orb has 0 triple digit figures on a fast track.

But, Orb leads 2-to-1 in the head-to-head match-ups ... although those two wins came when Orb was at the peak of his form cycle and Itsmyluckyday was coming back from a layoff and was kid gloved into those two races where Orb beat him.

Revolutionary wins by 2 lengths.

Pick again, please. He's already been sufficiently mushed.

Belmont by double digits
 

refuses to take the bait (being on double secret probation and all)


Rev's colors will also adorn the canoe this year.

if he is in the race, that's my pick.

Always in a Tiz (Schettino) a Belmont entrant. David Cohen rides.

99/1.

David Grening ‏@DRFGrening: Repole said: Overanalyze 100-percent, Unlimited Budget 75-percent, Midnight Taboo 60-percent for Belmont.. After a bit of a disappointing work, Micromanage has bee pulled from Belmont consideration, Mike Repole said. Easy Goer next.

Works:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn9kS...ature=youtu.be

Vyjack now a possibility..

Baffert sounded unlikely with Code West on ATR today. Owner Gary West not that interested in running..

Did they abolish the Woody Stephens or something?

Incognito a go..

Has anybody watched that round table (well, I guess 3 people constitutes a round table) on Bloodhorse about this year's Belmont? About halfway through I felt like I was watching Kentucky Derby pre-race commentary from 1995. Dosage? :confused:

Oxbow still bouncing about (works of Will Take Charge and Golden Soul available too):

http://www.belmontstakes.com/multime...px?VideoId=110


And an excellent blog entry from Andy:
http://www.belmontstakes.com/blog/an...g-the-mystery/

Andy's writes so well and is so passionate about his sport its hard to ever find issue with his comments.

Jay Privman tweet: No Belmont for Code West, says Baffert. He will not have any runners at Belmont Park for that day's card.

I believe it was Freddy who gave me an endorsement on Erich Maria Remarque the other day.

McPeek just announced Frac Daddy confirmed - will ship Tuesday by air per Marty McGee tweet @DRFMcGee

16 is capacity.

Final jocks assigned now with Leparoux on Vyjack, Garcia on Frac Daddy and all three Repoles confirmed. 15 horse field appears set for Belmont draw Wednesday..

6/8: BELMONT STAKES

1. Orb (McGaughey/Rosario)
2. Oxbow (Lukas/Stevens)
3. Will Take Charge (Lukas/Court)
4. Revolutionary (Pletcher/Castellano)
5. Overanalyze (Pletcher/Velazquez)
6. Palace Malice (Pletcher/Smith)
7. Giant Finish (Dutrow/Prado)
8. Unlimited Budget (Pletcher/Napravnik)
9. Freedom Child (Albertrani/Saez)
10. Always in a Tiz (Schettino/Cohen)
11. Golden Soul (Stewart/Albarado)
12. Incognito (McLaughlin/I. Ortiz)
13. Vyjack (R. Rodriguez/Leparoux)
14. Midnight Taboo (Pletcher/G. Gomez)
15. Frac Daddy (McPeek/A. Garcia)

That has to be the biggest field in like forevah! There have been a few 12 horse fields.

Perky Freedom Child:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DCKh3xrxXk

1983. Caveat.

13 in that field, but a race I hadn't seen on video before:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1immmAJSubw

http://news.google.com/newspapers?ni...g=5443,1948469

Some interesting stats in those newspaper clippings:
- It was the first time the Derby winner skipped the Belmont since 1970; and
- Largest field for the Belmont was 14 in 1875

15 in '83. http://www.belmontstakes.com/UserFiles/file/1983.pdf

You can never trust newspapers! :D

I think I'm going to favor the early speed types, even with a large field.

Grabbing disease is everywhere. Even if it isn't, Oxbow is a tough horse and the pace will not be as fast as the Derby.

Any love for Revolutionary yet going 12 furlongs ? Big fields = big payouts