JC / Railbird

Triple Crown Archive

PP	Horse	Jockey	ML
1	Big Brown	Desormeaux	2-5
2	Guadacanal	Castellano	50-1
3	Macho Again	Gomez	20-1
4	Denis of Cork	Albarado	12-1
5	Casino Drive	Prado	7-2
6	Da’ Tara	Garcia	30-1
7	Tale of Ekati	Coa	20-1
8	Anak Nakal	Leparoux	30-1
9	Ready’s Echo	Velazquez	30-1
10	Icabad Crane	Rose	20-1

What’s especially fun about Rags to Riches entering the Belmont is that the move seems to have given trainer Todd Pletcher a chance to reveal his sporting side. The horseman famous for his cool, detached ways around the track and his blandly professional pronouncements is suddenly saying things like, “She is just a good filly…. Aside from having testicles, she has it all” (Blood-Horse), and “At the end of the day, competing in the Belmont with a chance to win is more exciting than going in the Mother Goose and being 1-to-5” (Courier-Journal). Makes me wish we had the chance to see more of this Pletcher and less of TPI.