Million Day Play Along

[ScottJ]

Originally Posted by pointman

You were right, but it took absolute garbage riding on the two Brown horses. How was Minorette's speed not used there, even if to set up Xcellence? What a laugher that Lezcano takes back and lets the 5 sit off the 1 off a slow pace like that. Garbage ride by Bravo trying to take the 4 up the rail. Incredible incompetence.

The same on-going scenario in these four ad five horse fields. The pace is slow, the lead is given to a gross longshot on paper, and the race turns into a quarterhorse sprint. When you think about if, Duff One (#1, J.Ortiz) came within 3/4s of a length on that tremendous upset.

More interesting is that the pace and layout of that race put to the two Belmont Oaks players off the exacta.

Minorette did not seem to have the same pop so no fault to Lezcano there, but Chad Brown's other charge, Xcellence, is a head scratcher - a room full of top jockeys available, Bravo gets the chance, and gets pocketed and blocked in a four horse field. Exactly how does that happen? You can be sure that Jersey Joe does not see the back of this horse next time out.