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Originally Posted by DaHoss9698
Or polo. Either way, just not the Belmont.
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I actually think it DOES make sense for them to run him in the Belmont. He ran a respectable enough race in the Kentucky Derby and while he was absolutely awful early in the year he has been....well.....slightly less awful recently.
He reminds me a lot of other Zito horses like Andromeda's Hero and Royal Assault who both combined outstanding distance pedigrees with a one-speed plodding style to hit the board in this race in recent years. I don't think a similar result for Anak Nakal would be completely out of the question.
The interesting thing to me about the field is that if all of the projected horses end up actually running in the race, this field (despite the overall weakness of the crop) strikes me as actually being better than the awful 2005 or 2006 versions of this race.