Belmont Fractions

[Antitrust32]

Originally Posted by horseofcourse

because he kicked from 7f to 10f...that's when he flew. Just like the Sunland Derby when he kicked from 5f to 8f...nothing left. Borel was no different today than Casey Lambert at Sunland. Running your 5th quarter in a 12f race in 23 flat or slightly below is plenty of oomph to me....just quite a bit mistimed. IF he runs that 5th quarter closer to 24 seconds, I'm guessing he doesn't drown completely the last 8th or quarter. It's all speculation. To me he repeated his Sunland Derby race. He got good rides in the Derby and Preakness waiting to use his 3f kick....His Sunland races and the Belmont were identical. Used too early and then going flat as a pancake the final furlong. I don't know this, but based on his 5 races this year...it seems obvious when you need to move him.

One more thing... I agree with everyone on here that it was a very big mistake for Boral not to have ridden a race there that day.. or any races the past week.. you would assume that the jock would want to be out there at least once to feel how that track is playing. For him to say the rail was dead is just comical.

Summer bird had a great trip... if you would switch his trip with MTB's, and have MTB get Summer Birds trip... Calvin would have won the race. of course that point is MOOT.

[SniperSB23]

Originally Posted by Antitrust32

One more thing... I agree with everyone on here that it was a very big mistake for Boral not to have ridden a race there that day.. or any races the past week.. you would assume that the jock would want to be out there at least once to feel how that track is playing. For him to say the rail was dead is just comical.

Summer bird had a great trip... if you would switch his trip with MTB's, and have MTB get Summer Birds trip... Calvin would have won the race. of course that point is MOOT.

Calvin should have been begging every connection in the Brooklyn to let him ride that race. Hell, he should have paid them for the chance to ride their horse. Getting a 12 furlong dirt race in before the Belmont would have been huge.

[Antitrust32]

Originally Posted by SniperSB23

Calvin should have been begging every connection in the Brooklyn to let him ride that race. Hell, he should have paid them for the chance to ride their horse. Getting a 12 furlong dirt race in before the Belmont would have been huge.

Before the race they asked him if not riding that day or the past week was going to affect him in the Belmont.

He said that he had tons of experience, racing in about 3.4 trillion races in his career, and it wasnt going to be an issue and nobody should question his experience.

Well he was wrong!

[SniperSB23]

Originally Posted by Antitrust32

Before the race they asked him if not riding that day or the past week was going to affect him in the Belmont.

He said that he had tons of experience, racing in about 3.4 trillion races in his career, and it wasnt going to be an issue and nobody should question his experience.

Well he was wrong!

And as much as I dislike Kent, he was quoted before the race as calling Calvin naive for thinking that which turned out 100% true.