Unbelievable

[CentaurMythX]

From the head-on view you can see that Mucho Macho Man came in not once to clip AK, but twice just after the break.  The second one broke his stride/momentum,and forced him to lose quite a bit of ground before settling back in to stride.  Johnny V had enough poise and balance just to stay on the horse.  Of course, he made an impressive move on the far turn, but it was not to be.  He just didn\'t have enough left.

My condolences to all of you who were all over Brilliant Speed & Stay Thirsty.  Those 2 rounded out my exotics...

Ruler on Slop.

[TreadHead]

Trivia question from today, which horses wore bend shoes in the Belmont?

Only the 1, 2, 3, 5, and 11.  Coincidence?  Perhaps.

[mikemca]

I should start by saying I didn\'t cash one ticket on the big race.I was in the Brilliant Speed camp and he sure looked like the winner in deep stretch.With hindsight being 20/20 the winner was pretty reasonable on the sheets.He had a forward moving pattern one nice top away from the fastest ones in the race and thoro gave him a good chance to run that new top.Similar to BS.He figured to settle into a good position stalking and Breen does well with blinkers on.Sire stats showed good off track form.I and probably most everyone else just got hung up on the distance breeding and being a sib to champagne d\'oro.So as for the arguement beforehand about the Belmont not being about the figures, I think they held up pretty well.

 Also just want to give credit to TG for the Twinspires Saturday contest today I won.I am new to contests but after only playing 4 of the Saturday contests I came in 6th and won thanks to the sheets.

[jbelfior]

Big jump ups with blinkers added used to be a trademark of Oscar, Pete, and Johnny Parisella back in the day. Hek, they had to have some kind of answer for the stewards.

Not inferring anything here I\'m just saying. ROI awful game at the end of a mile and a half race for a colt with sprint pedigree on the dam side. Roman Ruler not exactly the Giant Causeway of sires.


Good Luck,
Joe B.

[P-Dub]

I was at a graduation party today, didn\'t play a thing. Tough to read about the near misses for so many of you. Some of the gallow\'s humor quite funny.

Will add that I thought Larry Colmus called another outstanding race. He has done a fantastic job with this new gig, and as much as I love Trevor, wouldn\'t mind listening to him call BC races.  Very professional and entertaining race calls.

I loved Gary Stevens as a jockey. As an analyst, he puts me to sleep. Zero charisma, and he often states the obvious.  Johnny V always gives a good post race interview, wouldn\'t mind seeing that guy in the booth after he hangs it up.

[Topcat]

jbelfior Wrote:
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> Big jump ups with blinkers added used to be a
> trademark of Oscar, Pete, and Johnny Parisella
> back in the day. Hek, they had to have some kind
> of answer for the stewards.
>
> Not inferring anything here I\'m just saying. ROI
> awful game at the end of a mile and a half race
> for a colt with sprint pedigree on the dam side.
> Roman Ruler not exactly the Giant Causeway of
> sires.
>
>
> Good Luck,
> Joe B.


On Horse Racing Radio, the boys reported that Breen noted after the race that
they\'d needed to do some sustained blood work after the Tesio.

It surely worked.

[miff]

Modest 100 Beyer for winner.Kinda meaningless race for most in there considering the distance and surface condition.

[TGJB]

You buried the lead. Nice going with the contest.

On another post-- I would love to hear more about that blood work. That\'s not necessarily an insinuation, either. But this is yet another situation that can\'t be evaluated without more information.

There\'s a ton going on behind the scenes on the drug issue right now, this is the first time I have felt something productive could actually come of it.

[Rick B.]

Seems the politically correct number, even with the double-digit jumps for both 1st and 2nd place finisher.

[Ace]

I liked Stay Thirsty to begin with, and determined he was a huge move-up on the off track so I doubled my win bet, and keyed him on top of all the exotics. He wins, I make a pile of money, too.  Oh well. I thought I had a winner in the Preakness in Astrology, too.  Good handicapping, but no money to show for either.

[MonmouthGuy]

Hall/Breen barn is on fire.  Won two today at relatively short prices at Monmouth, then a first time graded stakes runner (Sleepless Knight) ran past Get Stormy in deep stretch to Place in a Grade 3 at long odds.  I couldn\'t have used that one on #s but keyed him because of the barn.

[Beginner]

Doc,
I was there and it was pathetic.  I had 4 tix at the finish line and invited 3 friends who don\'t play the races, but certainly could have become fans.  Not after yesterday.  The NYRA ran out of beer, wine, vodka, pretty much any alcohol....BEFORE the Belmont.  I had to bribe a bartender after they closed the bar in the simulcast room to get a handful of beer.  They were serving 1 quart Coronas as \"all that was left\".  Ive been to a lot of drinking establishments in a lot of places and ive never seetn that before.  It was a complete joke.  Let\'s see: they can\'t make money as bookies and they can\'t run a bar.  I found myself apologizing to my friends.  

On the racing, I had a ridiculous amount of money on ST and BS with Nehro more or less by process of elimination.  How the heck did ROI get in there.  I was counting my money at the top of the stretch and I was alive in a big pick 3. Hit the All button in the 10th. When viscount ran poorly, I was happy that I didn\'t include MOH in the pick 3 mix.   Of course, one of my buddies had $20 ATB on the 3 because his wife told him she liked the silks.  Yeesh. Shutting it down until the Travers...or maybe a friday twilight over at the scene of the crime (I\'ll be bringing my own beer)

[JR]

ROI was one of the few in the race with a forward moving line who hadn\'t already peaked. Just another improving spring, albeit a late spring, 3yo.