I don't know 3 races in 5 weeks - only a few have ever been able to win
them all. In the Belmont fresh legs usually prevail - as they did
today. Thats why the race them instead of anointing a triple crown
winner. It's not many horses that can hang thier bridle along side of
the bridle of Secretariat, Seattle Slew, Affirmed. The three in five
weeks got to him today - the spring was not there in his legs. There
have been a lot that have tired but they have all faltered - usually in
the Belmont. The worthy triple crown winners can run a 48 and change
first half and win - for the most part they all have.
Stewart Elliot (Smarty's jockey) should have ridden Samrty like a 100 miler- I knew at the half-way point he was going to blow him out. In each race he won before, he's ridden him at a nice easy second until the top of the stretch. This time he let Smarty pull out front and I knew then he had it blown.
He assumed he had more horse than he really did. Should have paced him...Let that be a lesson to our endurance horses.
Becky
-- "The person of superior integrity does not insist upon his
integrity
"The person of superior integrity does not insist
upon
his integrity.
For this reason, he
has integrity. The person of inferior integrity
never loses sight
of his integrity.For this reason, he
lacks integrity."
