The track was quite fast....and the final time for the Belmont Stakes would have been much faster had it not been such an incredibly slow paced race.
Cotton Blossom ran over 54 seconds faster, winning the Acorn, which is a half mile shorter, earlier in the card. She'd have needed to pair together a couple of 27 flat quarters to slightly better the Belmont's final time.
That really underlines how the comically slow pace effected the final time...and made the final time slower than it would have been had the race been a turely run race.
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