Early thoughts on Belmont Saturday Card

[philcski]

Originally Posted by slotdirt

Dunno...Remarkable News ended up winning the Dixie, and he's a pretty darned good horse. Cosmonaut was much the best in that race if not for the breakdown on the backstretch. I do agree that Cosmonaut will be way overbet given the circumstances in his last.

I agree that Remarkable News is a seriously talented horse, however how much did hurdling the ill-fated Mending Fences actually cost him? 2 lengths? 5 lengths? 10 lengths? It was an incredibly athletic move by the horse and Prado to continue on, but I'm leaning towards the former.
He does have a significant pace advantage in here but I think he's very suspect at a mile and a quarter. If he stays at the ML of 5-1 I might be more interested but he won't.