Chuck, What about Belmont?

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Originally Posted by dellinger63

Not sure that thinking makes any sense. Belmont's stretch seemingly goes on forever. Arlington on the other hand uses the alternate (shorter) finish line for 9 furlongs and once they hit the top of the stretch there's not a lot of track left to make up ground.

In addition the competition is softer at Arl and there is a free shuttle offered between CD and Arlington which, saves a ton on shipping, win or lose.

After watching the inability of anyone (outside of the Belmont Stakes) to make up any ground in that long Belmont stretch, I wondered how Sumwon would handle the 1 turn 1 1/8th distance. She still seems to hesitate coming out of the turn and wondered what Chuck's opinion was.