6/8 (BEL) 145th Belmont Stakes: Field at 14 as 'Tiz' passes

[freddymo]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

Todd is carefully planning Verrazano's campaign to avoid having to run in any NY races. The poor dear needs at least six or seven weeks between races. What's after the Haskell.....the prestigeous Indiana Derby?

prestigeous lol?

[rpncaine]

Yeah prestigeous like the NY Knicks! :-)

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by freddymo

prestigeous lol?

You are the only reason I don't have the worst spelling on message boards. If I was home I would have been able to use a dictionary before posting. Believe it or not, I don't have one in my Belmont office.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

Todd is carefully planning Verrazano's campaign to avoid having to run in any NY races. The poor dear needs at least six or seven weeks between races. What's after the Haskell.....the prestigeous Indiana Derby?

yeah, he 'likes the spacing'....what else is new? does anyone plan for less races per horse than todd pletcher?

[alysheba4]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

You are the only reason I don't have the worst spelling on message boards. If I was home I would have been able to use a dictionary before posting. Believe it or not, I don't have one in my Belmont office.

I always thought you were one of the best spellers

[10 pnt move up]

Originally Posted by alysheba4

I always thought you were one of the best spellers

He is terrible

[Dahoss]

Originally Posted by 10 pnt move up

He is terrible

OOOOOOOOOO

[Sightseek]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

Todd is carefully planning Verrazano's campaign to avoid having to run in any NY races. The poor dear needs at least six or seven weeks between races. What's after the Haskell.....the prestigeous Indiana Derby?

That sort of aggressive campaigning is going to require several months of recovery. Maybe BC Mile, but has the Stakes schedule for Gulfstream been released yet?

[Kasept]

Mylute a no for Belmont..

[Kasept]

6/8: BELMONT STAKES

Oxbow (Lukas/Stevens)
Will Take Charge (Lukas/Court)
Revolutionary (Pletcher/Castellano)
Overanalyze (Pletcher)
Palace Malice (Pletcher/Smith)
Giant Finish (Dutrow)
Unlimited Budget (Pletcher)
Freedom Child (Albertrani/Saez)
Always in a Tiz (Schettino/Cohen)
Golden Soul (Stewart/Albarado)
Incognito (McLaughlin)

Orb (McGaughey/Rosario)
Code West (Baffert/Napravnik)
Vyjack (R. Rodriguez)
Midnight Taboo (Pletcher)

[Calzone Lord]

Itsmyluckyday is not running in the Belmont...going to take on Verrazano in the Pegasus.

With the copycat nature of horse racing, just imagine if he had won the Kentucky Derby with the way he was trained.

Itsmyluckyday was given almost all of February off. He went into the Florida Derby off a layoff, and came into the Kentucky Derby with probably the most bizarre/conservative training pattern in the entire history of the Derby. However, before the Preakness, he worked 47 flat at Monmouth.

It kind of felt like trainer Eddie Pleasa Jr. didn't think this was a classic distance horse ... as he was clearly managing him like a horse who he wanted to have peaking going into the Preakness and Haskell (9f at his home track) instead of a horse being primed for the Derby.

Itsmyluckyday has run 3 triple digit Beyer figures in fast track dirt routes this year ... current division leader Orb has 0 triple digit figures on a fast track.

But, Orb leads 2-to-1 in the head-to-head match-ups ... although those two wins came when Orb was at the peak of his form cycle and Itsmyluckyday was coming back from a layoff and was kid gloved into those two races where Orb beat him.

[richard burch]

Revolutionary wins by 2 lengths.

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by richard burch

Revolutionary wins by 2 lengths.

Pick again, please. He's already been sufficiently mushed.

[Alabama Stakes]

refuses to take the bait (being on double secret probation and all)


Rev's colors will also adorn the canoe this year.

[richard burch]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

Pick again, please. He's already been sufficiently mushed.

if he is in the race, that's my pick.

[Kasept]

Always in a Tiz (Schettino) a Belmont entrant. David Cohen rides.

[Calzone Lord]

Originally Posted by Kasept

Always in a Tiz (Schettino) a Belmont entrant. David Cohen rides.

99/1.

[Kasept]

David Grening ‏@DRFGrening: Repole said: Overanalyze 100-percent, Unlimited Budget 75-percent, Midnight Taboo 60-percent for Belmont.. After a bit of a disappointing work, Micromanage has bee pulled from Belmont consideration, Mike Repole said. Easy Goer next.

[Sightseek]

Originally Posted by Kasept

David Grening ‏@DRFGrening: Repole said: Overanalyze 100-percent, Unlimited Budget 75-percent, Midnight Taboo 60-percent for Belmont.. After a bit of a disappointing work, Micromanage has bee pulled from Belmont consideration, Mike Repole said. Easy Goer next.

Works:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn9kS...ature=youtu.be

[Kasept]

Vyjack now a possibility..

Baffert sounded unlikely with Code West on ATR today. Owner Gary West not that interested in running..