8/29 (SAR): Personal Ensign S. (G1)

[Smooth Operator]

Originally Posted by Thunder Gulch

I also wouldn't judge Summer Bird on the basis of that plastic track effort. That was a heck of a nice colt during the summer/ fall campaign, so an unfamiliar surface after a long year doesn't tell the tale. Call him the worst Belmont/Travers winner ever if you will, but that's a tag most any would take. In between those, he was crushed by that filly..

Haskell was merely a prep race for SB.

He no doubt would've handled the overrated filly in the Travers...