6/11 (BEL): Belmont Stakes Probables/Possibles

[RolloTomasi]

Originally Posted by miraja2

I particularly like the way they say they're going to point for races like the Travers instead of the Belmont...as if asking a horse to run in both would be insane. Never mind that a whole lot of Travers winners in recent years (Lemon Drop Kid, Point Given, Medaglia Doro, Ten Most Wanted, Birdstone, Summer Bird, etc) were all Belmont Stakes participants.

All those horses you noted also ran in the Kentucky Derby. Alternation was only making his 2nd stakes appearance in the Peter Pan.

Coming in off that Peter Pan performance, the Belmont would seem to come at a perfect time for him. It makes no sense to me whatsoever.

In the last 18 runnings of the Peter Pan since the great A.P. Indy in '92, no winner of the race has gone on to win the Belmont. And only upsetter Coastal and Woody Stephens-trained Danzig Connection were winners of both in the preceding decades.