Posted on 06/09/2012 6:34:26 AM PDT by ETL
ELMONT, N.Y. — New York Racing Association officials were hopeful the Triple Crown bid today by I’ll Have Another would lure a record crowd, more than the record 120,139 who jammed Belmont Park to see Smarty Jones try to cap the Crown, but fail, in 2004.
Although I’ll Have Another has been scratched from the Belmont because of an injured tendon, fans still will see the Derby and Preakness winner. With jockey Mario Gutierrez aboard, I’ll Have Another will lead the post parade for the Belmont Stakes.
"NYRA asked us if we’d be interested, and we told them we’d be honored," said Doug O’Neill, I’ll Have Another’s trainer. "It looks like it’s on. Mario will get on him, and Lava Man will chaperone. (I’ll Have Another) will just lead the post parade, and then he’ll go right off."
Dr. Larry Bramlage, American Association of Equine Practitioners’ on-call veterinarian, said leading the post parade won’t exacerbate I’ll Have Another’s injury.
"It is absolutely of no concern for sub-maximal injury, but would be a concern at a mile and a half at full speed," Bramlage said. "Therefore, I have no concern for his appearance on the racetrack at the head of the Belmont field."
ADJUSTED MORNING LINE: Belmont Park’s line-maker has released an adjusted morning line based on the 11-horse Belmont Stakes field that remains after the scratch of I’ll Have Another.
In the new line, Dullahan is the 9-5 favorite. The early second choice in the adjusted line is Union Rags at 3-1, and Paynter comes next at 7-2.
The other adjusted early odds are Street Life, 8-1; Optimizer, My Adonis and Atigun, 15-1; Unstoppable U, 20-1; and Ravelo’s Boy, Five Sixteen and Guyana Dweej, 30-1.
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He could easily pay 7 or 8 bucks for show. With a $200 wager, that's a return of $700 or $800. Not a bad payday.
Unfortunately, I’ll be at work when the race goes off. And the damn thing isn’t on any local (NY) radio stations anymore! At least the Derby and Preakness weren’t, as far as I knew. There apparently isn’t even a phone number you can call for a live race call. What I did for the Preakness was called my brother and asked him to place the phone near his TV.
I’m reminded of what my uncle used to say on his way to the race track.... “I hope I breakk even. I need the money.”
Okay, here’s an admittedly ignorant question: suppose I’ll Have Another rests up for a year and gets better.
Can he run the Belmont next year and still qualify as a Triple Crown winner?
Or is the whole point three races in a limited amount of time?
I was thinking about the whole Belmont deal last night and I couldn’t help but wonder...why would you go to the effort and expense to have an “isolation barn” at Belmont where you can monitor the contact with the horses 24 hours a day a few days before the race...if you were fully confident in your medical/veterinary tesing procedures? You wouldn’t.
Also - and I’m sure this is a question that NBC Execs are asking this morning - why would you have your strictest scrutiny of the horses in the last race of the triple crown? Why not have the same procedures at the Derby and the Preakness? This is an issue that horse racing has to fix.
No. Only 3 year olds can run in the triple crown races. It’s a once in a life time shot for these horses.
They pulled all kinds of needless BS on the horsemen this year. They should be taken to task for it. All they did was upset the horses and make racing look bad. They were even trying to ban the horses from having cooked oats. Ridiculous.
They pulled all kinds of needless BS on the horsemen this year. They should be taken to task for it. All they did was upset the horses and make racing look bad. They were even trying to ban the horses from having cooked oats. Ridiculous.
They pulled all kinds of needless BS on the horsemen this year. They should be taken to task for it. All they did was upset the horses and make racing look bad. They were even trying to ban the horses from having cooked oats. Ridiculous.
Union Rags wins it. Good for them.
Union Rags wins it. Good for them.
Union Rags, Paynter gets second. Sorry for the multiple posts.
And here comes the Winnerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...................Feetlebaum.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BavRrRNvz8g
Dullahan lost all chance when he got boxed in and shuffled back. Not a good enough horse apparently to overcome that particular hitch and glitch in the running of the race.
Street Life needed a faster pace I guess to close off of, but still managed a fourth place finish. I was glad to see URags win, and to see it done EXACTLY the way Smith and Baffert were beaten in the Derby and Preakness. Once more going out on the front end, Smith and Baffert got run down in the final yards, in the first two races by IHA, and in this one by UR, playing the role of IHA. I saw URags in his stable on the NBC coverage
and emailed a friend “He looks so vibrant, almost unreal, like a computer graphic. I KNOW he will win!”
Unfortunately I had him on too few super tickets on top, but I had Dullahan also and Street Life and the 20-1 shot,
Atigun too and Paynter. Dullahan screwed up all my tickets, but those are the breaks. I was suprised there were no superhuge longshots, as in Belmonts past. I think that was because with IHA out, no one could feel bad by betting against him , and there was no excitement in betting on UR or Dullahan or Paynter, so instead they spread a little more money around on the hopeless longies.
Drug testing always lags behind the “chemists” who come up with new “medicines” to use. There has to be a specific test for a specific drug before any horse can be said to be drugged. Unknown substances may be found in a horses blood or urine samples, but unless and until a drug lab can identify and quantify it, that horse’s trainer and owner can’t be penalized. Isolation barns are also for security, as rival’s for the race can drug a horse intentionally to force a “positive” test. Every state’s racing board sets it’s own standards as to the amount of scrutiny horses receive before a race. Bill Heller touched on this subject in a book some years ago. I forget the title, unfortunately.
True, but I’m guessing that since he did win the KD and Preakness, and he will never race again, it was meant to honor him.
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