Railbird 2004–2019

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.

This just in: Rags to Riches will run in the Belmont, trainer Todd Pletcher announced this morning.

“Time Squared, who was sixth in the Blue Grass Stakes in April before winning an allowance race most recently, will run on Saturday in the 139th Belmont Stakes, trainer Patrick Biancone said Sunday” (DRF).
Related: Time Squared may be overmatched in this spot, but not outclassed, unlike the unknown Digger. “If the New York stewards had guts, they would stop the madness before Belmont entries are taken Wednesday morning,” writes John Pricci of the Maryland-bred 2-for-8 son of Yonaguska.

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