{"id":267554,"date":"2021-06-05T20:00:57","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T17:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/five-horses-have-legitimate-shot-to-win\/"},"modified":"2021-06-05T20:00:57","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T17:00:57","slug":"five-horses-have-legitimate-shot-to-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/five-horses-have-legitimate-shot-to-win\/","title":{"rendered":"#Five horses have legitimate shot to win"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Five horses have legitimate shot to win<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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It always happ<\/a>ens with the Belmont Stakes, especially when the Trip<\/a>le Crown is a goner.<\/p>\n

Right after the Preakness, there is talk of a full field, of even using the auxiliary gate for the second time ever. Then a couple of defections come before Memorial Day weekend. No problem. There will still be plenty of excitement.<\/p>\n

Finally comes the day of the draw, and the race fizzles like the Comet Kohoutek, the astronomical dud of 1973 that was supposed to make us forget about Secretariat. How did that work out?<\/p>\n

The Kentucky Derby winner will not be here, whoever it is. Medina Spirit is equina non grata, thanks to the New York Racing Association\u2019s padlock, to which Bob Baffert is not being given the key. Heir apparent Mandaloun is preparing for the little Pegasus next month at Monmouth Park, the better to fit his distance limitations.<\/p>\n

The better, too, not to show up Essential Quality. Mandaloun\u2019s stablemate from the Brad Cox barn will be the favorite Saturday in the Belmont. The morning line written by David Aragona of TimeformUS says 2-1. One global bookmaker made him 11-4 after the draw that put Essential Quality into the 2 hole against seven rivals.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s right. Seven. There have not been so few horses in the Belmont since American Pharoah scared off all but seven overmatched opponents in 2015. Who is scaring everyone off this year? Maybe it is just the cartoon character carrying the shovel at the quarter pole to smash in the face of anyone or anything daring to go 1 \u00b9\/\u2082 miles.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a wasteland for value hunters. That is unless a horseplayer dares to look at a long shot that is in over his head. Bourbonic (15-1 morning line) got his 15 minutes of fame down the road at Aqueduct, winning the Wood Memorial. Also from the Todd Pletcher stable, Overtook (20-1) has a maiden win in five starts. The two of them combine to look like space fillers.<\/p>\n

Bless the heart of France Go De Ina (30-1), but here he looks like a tourist in Times Square getting sucked into a game<\/a> of Three-card Monte.<\/p>\n

That leaves five horses for which a legitimate case may be made for winning the Belmont.<\/p>\n

No. 2 Essential Quality (2-1):<\/strong> He is by Tapit, the sire responsible for three of the last six winners of the 1 \u00b9\/\u2082-mile Belmont. He also has the perfect style for winning this race. Sit just off the lead, then pounce on the far turn before the quarter pole. Maybe Bruno De Julio, the clocker for whom I do podcast work, was right. Maybe the two hours between waterings of the main track at Churchill Downs kept any horse from closing in the Kentucky Derby. On another track maybe Essential Quality gets the job done. Maybe a track like \u201cBig Sandy\u201d at Belmont Park.<\/p>\n

No. 3 Rombauer (3-1):<\/strong> Closers do not usually do well at the Belmont, nor do Preakness horses coming back from the three weeks since Baltimore. Being by Twirling Candy out of Cowboy Cal mare might mean that he is bred to go 1\u00bd miles. But the aforementioned De Julio warns there are holes in Rombauer\u2019s pedigree, because his grandsire Candy Ride is from South America, where records are not co-mingled with those from North America. All that makes him feel like an underlay, which can happen with Preakness winners.<\/p>\n

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No. 4 Hot Rod Charlie (7\/2):<\/strong> With two Derby and two Preakness wins, trainer Doug O\u2019Neill needs only to take the Belmont to complete his career Triple Crown. There is a case to be made with a talented jockey like Flavien Prat, who leaves Rombauer to reclaim the ride he had finishing third at Churchill Downs. There is also his pace-chasing style. There is that indefatigable question about fatigue, though. Can he get the 1\u00bd miles? That is the big question for the whole field. It seems particularly so in this case.<\/p>\n

No. 7 Rock Your World (9\/2):<\/strong> The old dirt-in-the-face rap will not go away for John Sadler\u2019s would-be pacesetter in the Derby. He beat only two horses in Louisville, but getting pinballed at the start left him eating dirt for the first time in a career spent mostly on turf. He is ideally drawn for Sadler and jockey Joel Rosario. If he leads the whole way, he would join American Pharoah, Justify and Da\u2019 Tara, the 38-1 spoiler of Big Brown\u2019s 2008 party, as the only gate-to-wire winners this century.<\/p>\n

No. 6 Known Agenda (6-1):<\/strong> As more of a mid-pack horse, he is not the deep closer Rombauer is, so the best of Pletcher\u2019s Belmont trio would seem to have every chance to replicate his Florida Derby victory. The problem is he is in the same field as Essential Quality. Like Rombauer, he may need a torrid pace ahead of him. Being by Curlin out of a Byron mare, he may have the genes to run all day, or at least for 12 furlongs. This is the one that looks, sounds and smells like value.\n <\/div>\n

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