Free Equibase PP's for the Belmont Stakes...

[twogunsid]

Good Luck!

http://www.equibase.com/premium/eqbNTRAGetFreeFF.cfm?TRK=BEL&RD=06/11/11&CTY=USA&DE=D&RN=11

[twogunsid]

1. Former equine friend at Belmont with Mucho Macho Man

From thoroughbredtimes.com: Mucho Macho Man does not know it but one of his best equine friends is a neighbor in the Belmont Park stable area.

Roxy, a mini horse owned by trainer John Parisella, has taken up her usual residence under a large, shady tree outside the trainer’s barn, which is next to Kathy Ritvo’s Belmont base. Roxy stayed with Ritvo this winter at Gulfstream Park, where Mucho Macho Man shared a love of the outdoors with his smaller equine friend.

“He likes to be outside and she’s always outside,” Ritvo said. “So in Florida, we’d always find him wandering over to her. He’s a pretty curious horse.”

Ritvo has photos of Mucho Macho Man and the brown and white Roxy rubbing noses.

http://www.thoroughbredtimes.com/national-news/2011/06/10/mucho-macho-man-friend.aspx

[Condem]

2. Going with the Kentucky derby winner...

...with Nehro a close place.

[era veteran]

3. Good link Sid

Handicapping 3 year olds is hard this year. Can't figure this one. Good luck, hell I'll bet anyway.

[twogunsid]

6. Glad they are helpful...

TT has the Ragozin Insider up now, also: http://www.thoroughbredtimes.com/racing-news/2011/06/10/ragozin-insider-belmont-stakes.aspx

[Iggo]

4. Now everyone knows I clicked on Free PP's.

D'oh!

[twogunsid]

5. Who couldn't use some free PP's? :)

[twogunsid]

7. My Tri play for the Belmont...

6,9-1,6,9,10-1,6,9,10 for $24.

[twogunsid]

8. Belmont favorite worth looking past

From drf.com: Animal Kingdom deserves to be the favorite in the 143rd Belmont Stakes on Saturday. He was a dominant winner of a cleanly run Kentucky Derby, outfinished the rest of the field while narrowly failing to catch Shackleford in the Preakness, has trained well since, and appears to be sitting on another big effort. He soundly beat 7 of his 11 Belmont opponents in the Derby, figures to catch Shackleford this time with an extra five-sixteenths of a mile at his disposal, and the four who didn’t run in the Derby look hopelessly overmatched on paper.

The primary reasons to pick against him are greed and contrarianism. He will probably be less than his 2-1 morning-line odds – if the forgettable Ice Box was 3-2 last year, can Animal Kingdom really be a higher price? – and there are good reasons to doubt the only two other Belmont entrants who are less than 10-1 on the line, Nehro at 4-1 and Shackleford at 9-2. So I’m going to be greedy and contrary, take a small shot against the three favorites, and take a stab with Master of Hounds at 10-1.

Master of Hounds was fifth in the Derby, beaten 5 1/2 lengths. He and Animal Kingdom were both making their first starts on a dirt track, but while Animal Kingdom was in the clear on the outside throughout the race, Master of Hounds was stuck inside most of the way and took a lot longer to hit his best stride. He ran the same final quarter-mile time as Animal Kingdom, seeming to show real interest when he finally saw some daylight.

There are things not to like about him. He has won only 1 of his 8 career starts and has logged a worrisome amount of frequent-flyer miles since winning a maiden race at Tipperary last July, travelling from Ireland to Kentucky to Ireland to Dubai to Ireland to Kentucky to Ireland and now to New York. On the other hand, this will be just his third start as a 3-year-old, and he should be poised for his best effort yet. We still don’t know whether he’s really a top-class colt, and if he doesn’t run well Saturday he may never try the dirt again. At double-digit odds, however, he has enough possible upside to make him more appealing than horses who will be half his price.

http://www.drf.com/news/belmont-favorite-worth-looking-past

[twogunsid]

9. Stream the Belmont and undercard online HRRN....

http://www.teamline.cc/sportpage?teamcode=4776&eventcode=56

If anyone would like free PP's for the undercard Stakes races let me know. I might be able to come up with them.

[twogunsid]

10. It's Tricky wins the GI Acorn...

A daughter of Mineshaft out a Tale Of The Cat mare for Darley.

[twogunsid]

11. Trappe Shot wins the True North Handicap....

a son of Tapit. He looks like a nice handy horse. He sprints and can get 9f, too.

[twogunsid]

14. Justin Phillip wins the Woody Stephens.....

C.S.Silk Upsets in Just A Game and Mission Approved wins at 21-1 in the Manhattan Handicap. Tough day at Belmont for favorites.

[Condem]

12. Ruler On Ice!!!!

A bad stumble out of the gate for Animal Kingdom. Done. Man. I love the emotion of that winning jock.

[twogunsid]

13. What a bullshit crop of 3YO colts...

worst bunch I've seen in a while. Christ, can any of them at least win back to back races?

[TZ]

15. Watching the Kentucky Derby

Had me convinced the TC was gonna be three different horses. A mediocre Derby translated into a rather mediocre TC. I actually had a hard time maintaining interest because it all seemed blah

[twogunsid]

16. Best horse of the bunch is Shakleford...

and he's a front runner with distance limitations. Mediocre TC is right.

[twogunsid]

17. Mr. Prospector's Dominance in the Belmont

From bloodhorse.com: Mr. Prospector began his stud career in Florida in 1975. Although regally bred and a horse of brilliant speed, he had never won beyond seven furlongs. Thus, when his son Conquistador Cielo was entered for the 1982 Belmont Stakes (gr. I), many doubted the colt's ability to get the trip. Conquistador Cielo silenced his doubters in emphatic fashion, winning the race by 14 lengths on his way to Horse of the Year honors.

It took nine years for another male-line descendant of Mr. Prospector to win the Belmont, a feat Hansel (by Mr. Prospector's son Woodman) accomplished in 1991. But since then, the Mr. Prospector male line has dominated the race. Of the 20 renewals of the Belmont since Hansel's victory, horses from the Mr. Prospector male line have captured 13: Thunder Gulch (1995), Editor's Note(1996), Victory Gallop (1998), Lemon Drop Kid (1999), Commendable (2000), Point Given (2001), Empire Maker (2003), Birdstone (2004), Afleet Alex (2005), Jazil (2006), Summer Bird (2009), Drosselmeyer (2010), and Ruler On Ice (2011).

It seems ironic that a horse that was pretty much a pure sprinter during his own racing days should have become a fountainhead of Belmont winners. There was more to Mr. Prospector than the label “sprinter” suggests, though. His late trainer, Jimmy Croll, had little doubt that the horse would have stayed eight or nine furlongs, possibly more, had he not been compromised by soundness issues that were at least in part the result of a rushed attempt to make the 1973 Kentucky Derby field. And Mr. Prospector did not possess a pure sprinter's pedigree. While he was a son of the brilliant Raise a Native, his dam Gold Digger had been a good performer over intermediate distances and was by the rugged Nashua, whose wins included not only the Belmont Stakes but two renewals of then-two-mile Jockey Club Gold Cup.

In fact, while Conquistador Cielo was Mr. Prospector's only Belmont winner, the stallion sired several sons capable of winning top races at 10 furlongs, most notably Forty Niner (1988 Travers Stakes and second in the Kentucky Derby, both gr. I) and Seeking the Gold (1988 Super Derby, gr. I). Both have played a role in Belmont history: Forty Niner is the sire of Editor's Note and the grandsire of Drosselmeyer, while Seeking the Gold is the sire of Jazil.

Read more: http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/63581/mr-prospectors-dominance-in-the-belmont#ixzz1PNtxJEVu