From what I can tell, the horse didn't want to go 12 furlongs. The horse running this Saturday, however, strikes me as the steady eddie type who want to run all day long. He reminds me quite a bit of Bet Twice.
Rosario made a mid-race move on IHA in the Santa Anita derby and IHA didn't blink. I was fooled by that race going into Kentucky. I thought he was too cheap to beat 18-19 horses on the dirt at Churchill, and I thought no way on earth O'Neill is winning the Derby; that clown can't ship a horse to win on dirt anywhere west of the Rockies. Yet here he is! Go bleeping figure!
If there was no Alysheba, Bet Twice would have won the Triple Crown. This horse was fortunate enough to not draw a Alysheba type in the series. From the looks of things, he's home: he will track Paynter just like he tracked Bode, and he will thrive on the distance as BT did. From the look of things, the only way he gets beat is if the Matz horse is a Belmont Park freak and goes Easy Goer on him.
From the looks of things, however, is almost never how they really are. Pastor blasts homosexuals through the press and slinks off into the night to buy a boy with congregational money. Behind closed doors, the Pacifist of the year wishes nothing but ill will on black people and beats the **** out of his wife. Point guard smokes crack all day, suits up in the evening and quarterbacks a National Championship victory over a seemingly invincible opponent.
I watch Belmont from out here on the west coast and think to myself that is a completely different game they got going over there. I watch my co-patrons at the local racebook get buried trying to find winners at that track. Here in lies the rub. This bleeping court jester of a trainer is at the wrong track on the wrong coast and the one time he sent this horse to New York, he didn't run a step.
His saving grace? Like the last i don't know how many Belmonts [outside Curlin vs. RtoR] he catches a bad field.
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