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 Haskell Travers Pennsylvania Derby Breeders Cup Classic Then the Pegasus in January. Break. Oaklawn Handicap in April. Pimlico special next May. He’s trying to win a graded stakes race in every racing jurisdiction. I probably missed a few. | 
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|   Tapit Shoes a go for Belmont.. 
				__________________ All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. ~ Joseph Conrad A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right. ~ Thomas Paine Don't let anyone tell you that your dreams can't come true. They are only afraid that theirs won't and yours will. ~ Robert Evans The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. ~ George Orwell, 1984. | 
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|   6/10 (BEL): BELMONT STAKES Tapit Trice (Pletcher/Saez) Forte (Pletcher/I. Ortiz) National Treasure (Baffert) Angel of Empire (Cox) Hit Show (Cox) Tapit Shoes (Cox) Red Route One (Asmussen) Arcangelo (Antonucci) Il Miracolo (Sano) 
				__________________ All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. ~ Joseph Conrad A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right. ~ Thomas Paine Don't let anyone tell you that your dreams can't come true. They are only afraid that theirs won't and yours will. ~ Robert Evans The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. ~ George Orwell, 1984. | 
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|   Side note for the undercard, the Met Mile lost Taiba after unsatisfactory training but gained Dr. Schivel who opts for the Met instead of the True North.  Bit of a bold move for the latter (it was announced before Taiba came out) with the field that was lining up.  Is there a monster in the True North?  Where is Elite Power? | 
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|   Just looked up the nominees for both races.  There's some cross-nominees obviously but the True North has about half a dozen horses that have won 5 or 6 of their last 10 starts.  Don't know their relative class, but when you get a bunch of horses together who know how to win it usually makes for a good race.  Plus Following Sea is back in action.  Thought he fell into a black hole since he made no starts in 2022.  Fearless, who converted into a staying horse last is also nominated for what presumably would be strictly a prep race at 6 furlongs. Over on the Met Mile side, I'm interested in Charge It bouncing back. The betting public is sure to abandon him after the money he's burned in his last 2. I hope they shed the blinkers as that move was a complete botch job in the Oaklawn Handicap, though it is not critical as there is not a whole lot of front-running or even pressing speed lined up for the race. Charge It could get a trip similar to last year's Dwyer though obviously there will be much better horses behind waiting to pounce compared to that race. | 
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|   Where to start....Elite Power was supposed to run in the Met but it feels Mott convinced Juddmonte to run in the True North. As far as Following Sea, he ran a few weeks ago. He's around the eighth pole about now. 
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 That aside, is he even supposed to show up this weekend off the less than stellar comeback? | 
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|   My best guess is he next shows up in a Stallion ad. They need to hurry to beat Smile Happy. 
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 Plus now he has TWO for the Stephen Foster, theoretically, unless he takes a page from Mott or winds up on a stallion page (presumably in Idaho?)... Of course, I could have it all wrong. I haven't checked the probables for any of the Royal Ascot races yet... |