He Came Home In 24 and 1.

[Silver Charm]

Maybe its time to begin giving this horse his due. He ran a little faster than the Brooklyn. He finished it off in some pretty splits and fished with style.

I hope everyone did well today. This was a whatever can go wrong will go wrong day for me. Crushed like a grape but no sour grapes. And hey I got to see a Triple Crown Winner....and that\'s a good thing!!

[Fairmount1]

6th fastest Belmont Stakes ever.  

1. Secretariat | 2:24.00 | 1973

2. Easy Goer | 2:26.00 | 1989

3. A.P. Indy | 2:26.13 | 1992

4. Risen Star | 2:26.40 | 1988

5. Gallant Man | 2:26.60 | 1957

6. American Pharoah | 2:26.65 | 2015

[miff]

Got the lead cheap but ran fast late.

[beazley]

Nice company. As happy as I expected I\'d be. Got to be at least a neg 3.  When Moobie ran at him and Victor sat like a statue it was over in my eye. Likely a lot earlier.

[Fairmount1]

Brooklyn Handicap fractions:

23.62  :49.20  1:13.80  1:38.80  2:03.21  2:27.17

Belmont Stakes fractions:

24.06  :48.83  1:13.41  1:37.99  2:02.33  2:26.65


Here are the quarter-miles American Pharoah ran:  

24.06

24.77

24.58

24.58

24.34

24.32

[miff]

Surface was fast side all day, AP learning to rate better. Materiality was more than empty and could not even pressure AP a little,another TAP was last.

Fraud-sted was ok, Keen Ice much better than expected.

[beazley]

That may not be a tremendous machine but it\'s a machine none the less

[Fairmount1]

Last five Triple Crown winners, all wire to wire in the Belmont.

[TGJB]

Assuming he got back to the neg 3 (the basis of a conversation in itself), he\'s close to Smarty and within shouting distance of Rachel (only at level weights). But he still may go forward.

[ringato3]

Mike

tAP gives me a headache.  American Pharaoh the story of the weekend of course.  The real deal and deserves all the kudos and whatever else.

But Pletcher runs dead last with no less than 6 horses that took money and had numbers the last two days at Belmont.

Yet, he wins a handful of races as well.

Competitive edge and materiality couldn\'t have been worse today.   He even had the nerve to run second to last to competitive edge with his other \"fast\" horse in the race.  

Don\'t even know what to say about the guy.

Rob

[TGJB]

Come the revolution...

The truth is out there (I liked that one so much I used it twice).

[miff]

Rob,

When horses look that good going in and run that poorly, it\'s usually sick/hurt.If they got roughed up and faded, that\'s one thing but CE and Mat did not run a step

Mike

[TGJB]

When it\'s A horse that runs big or bad yeah, but that\'s a whole different thing.

[miff]

Snots can run thru a barn like wild fire, happens often enough.

[TGJB]

Yeah, okay.