BELMONT: Revised Morning Line
 

1 Street Life (C. Brown/Lezcano) 8-1
2 Unstoppable U (McPeek/Alvarado) 20-1
3 Union Rags (Matz/Velazquez) 3-1
4 Atigun (McPeek/Leparoux) 15-1
5 Dullahan (Romans/Castellano) 9-5
6 Ravelo's Boy (M. Azpurua/Solis) 30-1
7 Five Sixteen (Schettino/Napravnik) 30-1
8 Guyana Star Dweej (Shivmangel/Desormeaux) 30-1
9 Paynter (Baffert/Smith) 7-2
10 Optimizer (Lukas/Nakatani) 15-1
11 SCRATCHED
12 My Adonis (Breen/Dominguez) 15-1

Paynter went from 8-1 to 7-2 ? Big drop.

i think this still will be a very good and exciting race.

not as good as before, but there are still some very good horses here.

i'm looking foward to it.

This was a truly hard-core "Wise-guy" morning line.

The thought of Dullahan being a shorter price than Union Rags seemed preposterous to me...until I started hearing every DRF writer with a twitter account raving about how Dullahan has been training and the Sheets people are on Dullahan as well.

I think the race for post-time favoritism honors is going to be a very interesting one.

As it stands right now -- Union Rags is holding a slim lead over Dullahan.

Union Rags (2/1) $455,060
Dullahan (5/2) $401,075

Paynter is currently 9/2 ... but it's only ten minutes after 10AM on the West Coast. The California money typically comes in strongest for it's own and he should at least hold at 9/2.

This shows the final odds.
http://www.equibase.com/static/chart...60912USA11.pdf
And here's an interesting article on morning lines.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vau...0262/index.htm
I suppose Atigun was as close to an overlay as you could get this race, going from 15-1 ML, to 20-1 final. And only for show = $10.60