Despite the injuries and defections, this is shaping up to be a great race.
PPs here...
http://www.drf.com/tc/belmont/2006/pps/06belmontprobs.pdf
Perhaps...but Belmont can't be happy about losing the horses that the general public would be most aware of. Probably will hurt their attendance somewhat.
Thanks for ping and the link.
Beyer commented a few weeks back that they need to increase to Triple Crown purses to something more attractive. By gosh, even the Belmont Metropolitan on Monday was $600K.
Anyway, I'll be watching Belmont all day.
For some reason the numbers 31 and 2:24:00 just keep popping into my head when I hear that name.