Yes

[Chuckles_the_Clown2]

This is a good crop.

Bandini and Alex are diamonds in the rough.

Bellamania is not a bad horse they just need to run him in the right spots.

Greeley\'s stays sound, he sweeps the Four year old races in California next year.

Scrappy is gonna make over a million dollars before the end of September.

The Terrific two (formerly fab four) were overrated too. They were Bella/Beatlemania to the Stones Afleet Alex. Even drunk and falling down the Stones were always a better show.

But lets talk horseracing. Who is gonna beat Afleet in the run for the carnations with no pressure on the stable?

and

Lets talk the Met Mile and really slaughtering the heavy head.

[holybull95]

If not Bailes then who?  Maybe Zito or D. Wayne?  No, wait didn\'t Baffert have a cold spring with his 3yo crop.  Certainly not Pletcher.  At least he wisely skipped the Preakness with his bunch.  Give Bailes credit for entering Scrappy in a race where he thought the horse could do something.

[MO]

I would not be so quick to give Bailes any credit. After all, his horse, running in a grade 1 race reacted to a left hand whip by one of the leading jocks in the country just like a piece of crap maiden claimer.

[spa]

Mo, do really think Alex will not run the 1 1/2 ?  He\'s trained to run from Vegas to LA.....Rose must wait and wait and wait, then light Alex up. It can\'t get better than this !!!!! Is there a chanch Bailey screws up the Belmont like last year?

[MO]

Yeah man, I mean these are garbage cans, IMO. AA couldn\'t carry Alysheba\'s tack to the paddock, and look what happened to Alysheba in the Belmont. AA winning the Preakness was the most logical outcome for me in a bad race, but I wasn\'t betting  on it. In fact, I abstained. (Busy loosing a photo to a blind horse in the Pim Special)

The over/under for the final time in the Belmont is.... whatever it is, I\'ll take the over.

[Chuckles_the_Clown2]

Looks like Alex would have run about a 1.54.2 without the incident. Thats real racehorse time.

If Spectacular Bid can lose the Belmont, any horse can lose it. Bid, though more than capable of the distance moved early with an inexperienced jockey. The same thing happened to Smarty Jones, though Smarty did some of it himself. Alex is not that kind of horse and he\'s got deep resevoirs of female family stamina. I know I said the same thing about Funny Cide, but the pace scenario is key here. Alex is perfect, Alex is sweet, Carnations for Alex, the horse can\'t be beat.