Can Da' Tara do it?
 

Back at the scene of his greatest (and only triumph) in the last 13 months, Da' Tara will be re-united with Alan Garcia in search of career victory #3 in an N2X at Belmont today (Race 9).

I apologize for being completely wrong when we conducted an informal poll of the worst Belmont Stakes winners in the last ten years. How anyone could vote for any horse but Da' Tara is incomprehensible.

NT

Admit it, you ordered his hat from HorseHats.com...

Ironic, considering I do know someone who said prior to his Jim Dandy effort, "I think Da' Tara could end up being a good horse." Are you still of that persuasion?

NT

I laughed :D

I think I said he might be able to win a race of some consequence down the road because the 3-year-old crop was so bad. I was definitely wrong (about the winning part).

But he still beat Denis of Cork... speaking of hats...

This will be a very interesting race to watch - 7 entries witn 3-E8s, 1 E7, 2 E/P6s and 1 S. The big question is how fast will they go and who'll be left standing when they get to the quarter pole? Normally you'd jump all over the lone F but what about the lone S? At 10/1 he's a must use on the Pk-3s along with whichever speed type(s) you like. With the make up of this field you'd have to think Tizway is an underlay at 9/5. I'm adding an E8 (Super Shape 5/1) and an E/P6 (Da' Tara). That ought to cover whatever the race shape turns out to be.

Oh, I think it was more definitive than that and included something about how he was by Tiznow, who was a Super Derby winner.

Poor Denis had to run against the bias that day and had the weight of your money on him.

NT

The way our track played on SD day last year, I really think Da' Tara would have been quite tough.

Speaking of Denis - he still hasn't posted a work for this year. I thought they were bringing him back? I liked that horse about as much as I liked Pioneerof Denial. :D

Curses! Folied again!:D

Speaking of Horse Hats, anyone got an extra Bustin Stones hat? Would love one of those, and I know they gave them out at the Big A one time. Been checking on ebay ever since.

that horse is tired, how did that donkey win the belmont:confused:

When the other options are Commendable, Sarava, and Jazil, I don't know that it's possible to be completely wrong with any of them. LOL at this race still being called "The Test of Champions." Please. from all the previous winners of this decade, they've won how many races post-Belmont? Three. Combined. Unless I'm missing something, there were Point Given's Haskell and Travers and Birdstone's Travers.

Given the depleted field in 2000, I would say it's a dead heat between Commendable and Da' Tara. It's too close to call...

Sarava actually beat a very good field.