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Originally Posted by Phalaris1913
Some won it when it was four weeks after the Belmont. Perhaps if you had given Smarty Jones or Real Quiet an additional week of rest before the Belmont, they too could have won it.
Yeah, but the TC winners whose Belmont was four weeks after the second leg were not getting any additional rest, since they all ran in other races between the Preakness and Belmont.
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Which further illustrates that these horses can't do what horse of the past were able to do. I think it's silly to change the competitors but ask them to do the same things.
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05-26-2009, 05:30 PM
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