Belmont 10/11

[Handicappy]

Originally Posted by cowgirlintexas

How did you pick that horse?!!

As I looked at the race I liked the 3 alot but as pointman said there was a ton of early speed in here that I thought would cancel each other out. I liked Pygmalian but coming back off off a lengthy lay-off, I didn't think he would be able to carry it all the way. Of the rest, Golden Amulet looked like he easily belonged here. His last two trips were compromised by what I thought were bad trips. you take out his last race and his numbers are more than competitive with this group. Even though he was coming in off of a lay-off of 4 plus months, I thought his running style was suitable for a horse on a layoff. Plus he seems to run well off of a layoff so I swallowed hard, ignored the 12-1 morning line and put him in.
Now all that sounds like I know so much but in actuality, the darn horse ran the race well. With a nice change in jockey after those two bad trips.