![]() ![]() Content must be relevant to the Omaha Metropolitan Statistical Area. We’ll just have to see.Subreddit for Omaha, NE and the Omaha–Council Bluffs Metropolitan Area. Sometimes you think there’s pace and there’s not, and then other times they go faster than you think they do. ![]() I don’t think the draw affects us that much. “Hopefully, we have some pace in the race,” Blasi said. 9 post shouldn’t be a problem for Red Route One, but a lack of early speed from the front-runners could be. ![]() Scott Blasi, assistant to trainer Steve Asmussen, said the No. He ran a great race there and has shown us all the signs that he’s continuing to do well and move forward, physically.” “His works have been fantastic, just like they were leading up to the Kentucky Derby. ![]() “And he ran well last time, and Flavien came back and said, ‘You know, it might not be a bad idea to add the blinkers to him.’ We’ll see if it works out. “He trained in them all winter, we just never made the change,” Cox said. He’s a half to Cyberknife, a horse who obviously got better as he got older.”Īngel of Empire will add blinkers for the Belmont. “He’s continuing to get better, which we expected, given his pedigree. Not all of them do that, but that’s going to be the intent. “We’d like all of them to break and go forward. “Given the one hole, we’re going to send him out of there running,” Cox said. Like Tapit Trice, Tapit Shoes was also sired by Tapit, and Cox said the plan is to get the jump on the field out of the starting gate because of the inside post. “He shipped up from Baltimore and has been very comfortable here and worked out yesterday and looked beautiful,” Baffert’s assistant Jimmy Barnes said. The Bob Baffert-trained National Treasure has worked twice at Belmont since the Preakness, including five furlongs in 59.55 on Monday. If we can get him into a good rhythm, I think he’s going to like the mile and a half.” “The key is getting him out of the gate, getting into position. “He did win the Blue Grass from the one hole,” he said. 2 post shouldn’t hinder the late-running Tapit Trice’s Belmont chances. His sire, Tapit, has produced four Belmont winners, Essential Quality, Tapwrite, Creator and Tonalist. His stablemate Tapit Trice will get some consideration from the betting public based on his pedigree. Pletcher has appealed a fine and suspension, and Repole has said that he’ll fight the penalties in court.įorte has been cleared to run in the Belmont and has breezed three times at Belmont since May 21, the day after the Preakness. 5 had been disqualified for a drug positive out of that race that took eight months to adjudicate. The other Derby horse running in the Belmont is Tapit Trice, who was seventh at Churchill Downs.Īlthough Forte missed the Derby and Preakness, he has been in the news, after the New York Times reported on May 9 that Forte’s win in the Hopeful at Saratoga Race Course on Sept. Trainer Brad Cox, who won the 2021 Belmont with Essential Quality, has three entered, Tapit Shoes, Hit Show, who was fifth in the Kentucky Derby, and Angel of Empire, who was the 4-1 betting favorite in the Derby and finished third. The Belmont field with odds, from the rail out, will be: Tapit Shoes (20-1), Tapit Trice (3-1), Arcangelo (8-1), National Treasure (5-1), Il Miracolo (30-1), Forte (5-2), Hit Show (10-1), Angel of Empire (7-2) and Red Route One (15-1).įorte and Tapit Trice are trained by Pletcher, who won his fourth Belmont last year with Mo Donegal. ![]()
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