Belmont Surface

[ajkreider]

Very fast today.  Abel Tasman in 1:40 and change for the mile and a 1/16th.

[TGJB]

When you run about a negative 3 or 4 the time figures to be fast.

Two things:

1-- Baffert.

2-- Velasquez is unbelievably bad these days. If there\'s any chance he can be the outside horse he\'s gonna take it. And that was from the RAIL.

[Tavasco]

Velazquez rides the rail to nab 2nd and a $33 exacta. Doesn\'t make up for his fails but now can\'t toss him with confidence.

[TGJB]

Didn\'t have much choice, 7 kept him in.

[Molesap]

Well he is already on the outside here in the Met.

[jerry]

It is a very fast track. Scraped. I bet a bunch of these are never the same again. NYRA wants a TC winner badly.