Horrible Card...

[Lost Cause]

The day before the derby, great card
The day before the preakness, great card
The day before the Belmont, Crap..absolute crap

I could have sworn there was a time when the day before the Belmont had the Acorn, Belmont stakes double and a couple of other stakes races...What happened?  There is nothing to get the pulse racing on friday...Another reason the NYRA has to go...

[miff]

Lost,

Agree, but check out saturday, it looks like they saved all the good horses in the barns for that card.

Mike

[SoCalMan2]

I haven\'t look at either card, but years ago I loved to go out to Belmont for the day before the big day and it did seem to be a very good chewy card.

Maybe this year they figured the big race is not as big a draw as it has been in prior years and they really needed to sacrifice Friday\'s card to try to juice up the main event.

Just speculation.

[jmetro]

Condition books come out weeks in advance of the projected days racing.  Friday\'s card was going to bad even if Streeet Sense would have been going for the Triple Crown.

[Ill-bred]

Friday\'s Belmont card is extremely weak compared to what Churchill and even Pimlico did the day before their Triple Crown races!

One Grade 3, and only a six-horse field...

[Lost Cause]

They could at least throw in a couple of two year old stakes races for fillies and colts to make it interesting...There are no 2 yr old races running Friday or Saturday...I\'m sure they could have at least filled those races..Instead it\'s a card that makes me yawn...

[Ill-bred]

Good call on the lack of two-year-old races...