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Windy
30th May 2001, 05:16.24 PM
Any thoughts on these possibles for Belmont?

MONARCHOS
INVISIBLE INK
THUNDER BLITZ
Point Given - long stretch at Belmont to be his undoing?
IT'S SO SIMPLE
DR GREENFIELD
BALTO STAR - after Derby had mild heat stroke
BUCKLE DOWN BEN
DAYTON FLYER
E DUBAI
A P VALENTINE
DOLLAR BILL

Late closers for Belmont or speed horses?

Did A P Valentine show himself in the Preakness? What was wrong with Point Given? He looked loaded in shots before the race. Congaree has trouble with anything over 1 1/8. Dollar Bill? Griffinite can run, for a while. Monarchos? A P Valentine seemed to have picked up the pieces of a lackluster race and in the process ran the best race of his life. Previous to the Preakness, A P Valentine had never earned a three figure Beyer speed figure, and I'm sure he earned one in the Preakness. But remember the last time this horse ran an amazing race and remember the next race he ran? I don't see a repeat of the same performance. A P Valentine is not inconsistant." My thoughts, but it is early yet.

MikeDee
31st May 2001, 08:24.07 PM
Windy-
I think it's to early for most of us to have formed an opinion on the Belmont yet. Have to see the HTR file so I can see how they stack up. Don't know that any of these can beat Point Given at this distance but have to see the figs.

ERNIE
31st May 2001, 10:03.40 PM
I have to wait for the racefiles to make a decesion, I would like to see blinkers on Point Given that would all but block his view of the grandstand...........how fast and how far would he have won had he not slowed to look around????????(not once but at least three times)
Did he look around like that in the Derby?