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kentuck

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17. I think they should hold him back just a bit in the Belmont....

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Reply #16)

Sat May 19, 2018, 10:13 PM

May 2018

...and conserve his speed for the last 1/4 mile or so.

It would be best to pull him outside just a bit and let him run a comfortable pace until the last stretch of the race.

Then he might take the Belmont.

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