Most Disapointing horse today at belmont ?
 

Obvious big brown, but for me its not him... i thought he was never anything more then a decent horse beating very bad horses, so to me i was not shocked.

Indian Blessing disapointed me, Readys Image, especially after Desert Key Jogged, but readys image was chilly on the tote early....
Man of Danger should have won, guess he out ran his odds though....
Criminoligist was disapointing

guadacanal

yes, he did take tons of money.

Pletcher's horses were awful all day. Not that any of them were really contenders anyways.

o jeez

Denis of Cork...

just think about it.

Not really - for me he was though from a betting standpoint.

He will never have a better chance at a grade 1, IMO. He couldn't catch that Zito horse after setting those fractions fending off BB and Tale of E. He's not quite Dollar Bill status yet but I'm not crazy about these type.

For me it was How You Been Nita. Didnt think she would win so I bet her to place and show....as you can see the place and show prices sucked.


http://www.drf.com/drfPDFChartRacesI...=20080607&RN=2

Setting what fractions? Da'Tara was loose on the lead on a (potentially) speed favoring track. Denis ran a decent 2nd - I don't see how it was disappointing. I've liked this horse since his maiden - I'm a fan and I've bet him in every one of his races except for the Ill. Derby - but he's not worthy of winning a G1.

denis had to have been compromised by a slow early pace. hell, the whole race was slow.
as for zaftig--it's a damn shame when the acorn can only get four horses to run.

At least the top two are good horses.

I have to disagree, if the timer is correct and as I already have said I am a very sceptical person...a 26.44 final 1/4 and not cutting into that from a horse that won one mdn win to his name after running 2:03.21 for the 1 1/4 has to be termed dissapointing from the clearcut second choice and 3rd place finisher in the derby. Well it was for me!

oh, i think zaftig is a nice horse. just wish the bigger events would draw bigger fields, it's more exciting to watch.

no argument there. field size today for the stakes was pretty good, though.

Denis is a suckup horse and I've said as much since his dream setup in the Southwest. He had absolutely no excuses today....except for ESPN saying Carroll said the Kentucky Derby was a prep for the Belmont. I threw up a little in my mouth when that BS was mentioned.

this is true... again the whole crop is weak...

Ready's Image

This horse would improve immensely if he got away from Caroll, his management of this horse has been peculiar all year.

Looks like you were the only one there who was betting :eek:

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.