The 1st at Belmont?

[blackthroatedwind]

Anybody else find this race odd?

It's not a loser's gripe, I lost all of $40 on the last place finisher, but just puzzlement over the way the race was run. Certainly it was a bad field, and while I find the winner surprising, he certainly wasn't impossible relative to the other horses in the field. However, he skirted to an instant and quickly widening lead, in fairly tepid fractions, despite both Stevie Ray Gone and Tiz Stormin appearing to possess significantly greater early speed. He cruised around the racetrack as though he was running in a completely different universe than his opponents.

Anybody else watch this race and have either a reasonable explanation or share my confusion?