what a Belmont to follow!

[lamboguy]

i am tickled pink that i didn't go to the Preakness. now i am going to probably the very best Belmont of all time. i can't wait for all these great horses to get together and lay it all down.


i also love the way this trainer has been handling the star of the show. winning in Belmont will not be any easy task, the horses he faces are all good.

[TheEdge07]

Originally Posted by lamboguy

i am tickled pink that i didn't go to the Preakness. now i am going to probably the very best Belmont of all time. i can't wait for all these great horses to get together and lay it all down.


i also love the way this trainer has been handling the star of the show. winning in Belmont will not be any easy task, the horses he faces are all good.

Very best Belmont of all time?..slow down

[Redboard]

What a horse! With THAT breeding? Are you kidding me. What a great story. !

[dannyhill]

[QUOTE=lamboguy]i am tickled pink that i didn't go to the Preakness. now i am going to probably the very best Belmont of all time. i can't wait for all these great horses to get together and lay it all down./QUOTE]

Secretariat just rolled over.......

[tucker6]

[QUOTE=dannyhill]

Originally Posted by lamboguy

i am tickled pink that i didn't go to the Preakness. now i am going to probably the very best Belmont of all time. i can't wait for all these great horses to get together and lay it all down./QUOTE]

Secretariat just rolled over.......

... and pooped in the post parade of the 2014 belmont...

[Shelby]

I was SO excited to see I'll Have Another run in the Belmont….and then he scratched. I haven't grown attached to CC for some reason, but, yeah, the Belmont will be very exciting!

[bks]

This is what Belmont had in mind when it moved the Met Mile and other big races to Belmont Day, yes? Crowd of 160,000?

[Stillriledup]

How funny would it be if a horse NAMED California something, who started his career in a 4.5 race on a plastic track won the Triple Crown on the east coast.

You can't make this stuff up.

[Dark Horse]

I have a hard time forgetting the sickening way the last TC candidate was treated when he came to Belmont. It would be enough for me to consider not sending CC to that place.

[Robert Fischer]

Great Race, great card.

Belmont, Met Mile?, ...

[Grits]

Originally Posted by Dark Horse

I have a hard time forgetting the sickening way the last TC candidate was treated when he came to Belmont. It would be enough for me to consider not sending CC to that place.

I have a greater time forgetting that it was far more sickening that his owner sold out the morning before the race.

[BettinBilly]

Secretariat was the greatest Belmont, and unless Chrome can win by 25 lengths, I doubt it will top what Secretariat did in 73.

However, it is going to be a GREAT Belmont. Not the GREATEST, but absolutely GREAT. Best in decades, IMO.

And if I was a movie executive at Disney, I'd be all over Chrome's owners NOW for movie rights, not after the Belmont. The story is poised for a Mega Blockbuster. Bill Nack did a great job IMO researching, studying, and writing his book "Secretariat". I wonder whom will be the "Nack" for Chrome?

[Dark Horse]

Originally Posted by Grits

I have a greater time forgetting that it was far more sickening that his owner sold out the morning before the race.

In my book a TC candidate is royalty of horse racing. Let's see how CC is treated by those hospitable &#&$&*.

IHA had a thing going with Lava Man. That was broken up by that idiotic detention barn, where he ended up hurting himself. The whole thing was a great story and celebration of horse racing until the East 'decided' he was cheating. Right. Compare O'Neil's winning percentage with some of the leading trainers in NY. Hypocrites.

[Grits]

Originally Posted by Dark Horse

In my book a TC candidate is royalty of horse racing. Let's see how CC is treated by those hospitable &#&$&*.

IHA had a thing going with Lava Man. That was broken up by that idiotic detention barn, where he ended up hurting himself. The whole thing was a great story and celebration of horse racing until the East 'decided' he was cheating. Right. Compare O'Neil's winning percentage with some of the leading trainers in NY. Hypocrites.

Sorry, we don't agree. I think you're sadly mistaken about those hospitable &#&$&*, as you term them. The horse was never injured in the detention barn. He had problems all week.

EOC.

http://espn.go.com/horse-racing/trip...t-trainer-says

After talking to the media, O'Neill led I'll Have Another out of the detention barn and walked him down a path toward the barn where the colt had stayed for most of the time he had been at the track. Since Wednesday, all the Belmont Stakes horses were housed in the same barn with 24-hour surveillance; New York racing officials said it was to ensure the race was run fairly.

"Some people have asked did the detention barn have anything to do with this. Absolutely not. Just a freakish thing," O'Neill said. "I've been hoping and praying he would stay injury-free, and it didn't happen."

O'Neill has been under intense scrutiny throughout the Triple Crown series because of his history of medication violations. He is set to begin a 45-day suspension next month after one of his horses tested positive for excess total carbon dioxide in a race last year.

[PaceAdvantage]

Originally Posted by Dark Horse

I have a hard time forgetting the sickening way the last TC candidate was treated when he came to Belmont. It would be enough for me to consider not sending CC to that place.

Which would have been more sickening to you? The supposed way NYRA treated IHA (oh no, God forbid he is treated just like all the other runners in the Belmont Stakes), OR, Doug O'Neil going down in the record books as a trainer of a Triple Crown winner?

I vote the latter...