Denis Of Cork is more of a setup type closer than a slowpoke finisher like a Ready's Echo is.

Da Tara jogged on an uncontested lead through moderate to reasonable fractions. He never fended off either Big Brown or ToE - both ran non-efforts and never made so much as a serious bid.

Denis Of Cork did what setup closers tend to do - and pass everything that stopped in front of him. Da Tara got a dreamy trip making his own pace without pressure and just never stopped.

The race was slow all around.

Big Brown's Preakness fig was by far the slowest winning Preakness Beyer in 15 years - and this years edition of the Belmont was one of the biggest eyesores in the recent history of the triple crown series.

Funny huh....check out the Daily Double pool......52 bucks. Handle probably consists of 2 people betting.

Okay maybe Da Tara ran the race of his life, but when a horse with his previous form 1 mdn win runs wire to wire in honest fractions especially for this crop of horses, you would expect Denis of Cork to atleast catch him in the last 26 and 1/2 last 1/4 mile. Great result yes that the TC gods made the right decision, but this Belmont will be remembered as the worst since Commendable last won it.

actually, i think commendable can move up a step from the basement now.

The criminal(ologist) gets my vote. One of those horses that throughout is career when ignored ruins me but when played is MIA as he was yesterday. JR and Frankel had to be disappointed. Playing Chester on the grass paid again as frequently seems the case just ask Hooves'

Commendable was like Easy Goer compared to Sarava and D'Tara.

Not really - D' Tara had it all his own way and was staying on well enough.

DoC has never really been a big finisher through the stretch.

I'll agree on DOC not being a big finisher, he had no excuse from my vantage point, he was closer to the pace yesterday than the Derby and had less to do. But still couldn't pass D'Tara as they crawled home. I doubt any of these horses would even make Jan Rushton's watch list.

Older horses carryling 10lbs less weight came home in slower time in the Brooklyn on Friday.

I realize the track wasn't as fast on Friday - but the Brooklyn got a 107 Beyer with a 27+ final quarter.

When you consider how tremendously moderate that group of 3yo's were yesterday - and factor in that they are carrying 126lbs at 12fs - and while the pace wasn't much - the winner's 26.40 come home time was hardly something that stood out as clearly the weakest part of a very low rated race.

'very weak group... all of them are weak, pyro, brown, war pass everyone is weak to ok at best, no greats, not even close to greats.
da tara could be a good one, pedigree says he should get better with age, in great hands with zito, he could turn out to be a good one.

It really was a horrific race. BB's bomb has distracted from the disgrace of this being a classic race.

weekend figs
 

http://www.drf.com/stakeresults/drfStakeResults.jsp

J Be K - 108
Zafting - 107
Benny - 106



Da'Tara - 99

Even worse than the little guy's?

Are you trying to make me like Jazil by giving him the same nickname as my idol Andy Serling?

Whatever it takes babe. :D

Casino Drive.

Do you think that fig is legit?

I take most figures earned at rarely run distances with a grain of salt.

Both the Brooklyn and Belmont were obviously the only two turn routes on the card - and both were run at rarely run distances. The figures are pretty much best guesses in those situations.

good point only if he had been managing the horse.

That's what I figured. 107 seems too high for Delosvientos.