And The Winner Of The Belmont is........

[RolloTomasi]

Originally Posted by Danzig

and how can we have horses not bred to get 10f, but then we have people saying there are horses bred to go long?

That question is more all-or-nothing than Bayern (who is bred to go long).

The sire of Keen Ice has already sired one Belmont winner in a brief stud career and would have won the race himself had the race been restricted to colts and geldings. The winner of that 2007 Belmont, Rags To Riches, was sired by another Belmont winner, A.P. Indy, who was himself a son of a Belmont winner, Seattle Slew. Rags To Riches was also out of a dam which had already produced a Belmont winner (Jazil).

Perhaps you're right: horses are no longer bred to go long.

But some of them are bred to win the Belmont.