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Old 06-22-2010, 10:23 PM
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Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind View Post
Our Mims was Calumet.

Great Contractor is the only horse I have ever seen in the Belmont Stakes with a prior race at 1 1/2 miles. He ran on the turf at 1 1/2 at Hialeah, maybe the Bouganvilla, against olders in the Spring before coming close against Bold Forbes.
Guadalcanal ran in the Belmont in 2008 also ran a mile and a half before the Belmont- in a MSW at CD two weeks before.

Oddly enough, he actually ran Sunday at Churchill at 11F...
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