Derby Notebook/Earnings (4/17); Soldat sharp in last FL drill

[RolloTomasi]

Originally Posted by hockey2315

1. Not a turf horse.
2. Not a horse who clearly has some health issues and would be shipping halfway across the world.
3. Not a horse whose connections haven't mentioned at this point as a horse going to the Belmont.

For a brief stretch there in the late '80s-early '90s, the converses of those generalizations would have helped you nail the trifecta in a handful of Belmonts.

'89- French trained Le Voyageur runs 3rd to Easy Goer-Sunday Silence
'90- Irish trained Go And Go romps by 8 lengths over Unbridled et al
'92- English import My Memoirs splits A.P. Indy and Pine Bluff
'95- English trained Citadeed follows Thunder Gulch around the track