Why should third string horses run is this race? Hell, even if you win in fluky year (which AIN'T happening this year), it really doesn't increase your stud value. Birdstone is a big $10,000 per shot; Commendable (possibly the worst TC race winner ever) is in frickin' Korea.
Why not try to win the Ohio Derby (May 31) instead of getting dusted at Belmont?
Before the recent mania of "running" (and I use that word advisedly) in every TC race possible, there were often quite short fields in the Belmont--four horses showed up to challenge Secretariat. BB is not Secretariat, but the rest of this lot not in the same league as BB or (probably ) Casino Drive.
As Dirty Harry might have once said, a man's got know his (horse's) limitations.
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