A lackluster Belmont

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ayenowitall — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 05:11:40 GMT

Years ago when I worked with horses, we claimed a grey horse named JC's Rocket at Churchill Downs. The horse had a ton of speed, but he was a run-off artist who would burn himself out and have nothing left for the stretch. When we ran him back on the raise, Randy Romero rode him. He knew the horse liked to run off, so instead of fighting him by trying to rate him slower, he just boxed him in behind horses where he had nowhere to run. When he got to the top of the stretch, he swung the horse clea... [ More ]

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Rick G — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 20:34:02 GMT

<br />I was also disappointed with Hard Spun's piloting. He should have been setting the fractions into the stretch with gas to spare.<br /><br />From the Belmont Stakes chart: "HARD SPUN raced erratically, while fighting his rider and tucking in a bit in the early stages, drifted out a bit on the first turn, stalked the leaders five wide on the backstretch, continued wide while lodging a mild bid to threaten approaching the quarter pole then tired through the last quarter of a mile."<br /><br... [ More ]

Original Blog Entry: A lackluster Belmont

ayenowitall — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 15:46:28 GMT