Check your local listings and set your DVR--TVG is running a 1 hour \"Best of the Belmont\" show--I believe it will be on again at 1:30AM Eastern Friday morning--as well as at 8:30AM Eastern Friday morning--it shows in the program listings as TVG Classic.

They show the actual race footage and call of approximately 15-16 Belmonts starting with Secretatriat in 1973 and ending with 2007--they obviously skip some years, but it is all good.

It is just the race, with no commentary before or after--only some factoids--and limited commercials. I think most people will appreciate having some of these Classics recorded for future viewing--I don\'t know where else you would find them.

P-Dub: They\'ve been running this all week and its great. I\'ve watched it twice already.  Good stuff.

TGJB: You can probably guess my favorite. And everything else aside, Durkin\'s call (meaning the one at the track, not on TV), was the greatest call in history, and not because I was involved or because of the outcome. Check it out.

Meanwhile-- Bob Barry was nice enough (I guess) to send me the piece by Ragozin and Friedman in the Times about the Triple Crown. Aside from it being exactly what I have ben saying in public forums for over a decade, a) about a third of it is a commercial, and b) if someone who doesn\'t know better reads it, they will think the 11th st. boys are the guys behind Rachel. And it\'s clearly not unintentional.

magicnight: Thanks for the parenthetical. Don\'t go calling me \"nice\" on a late thursday afternoon ... I\'ll lose my edge!

And, btw, Gary Stevens considers VG\'s Belmont his greatest ride ever.

TGJB: As I have said here, it\'s the best ride I ever saw. Split horses 3 times, if he goes around any of them we lose.

After all this time I still can\'t stay seated watching that race.

flushedstraight: Durkin\'s call in 98

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIRP4UbrCg8


in the unlikely event of Mine That Bird sweeping by everyone, Durkin will  compensate for his Derby debacle, it probably bothers him more than anybody

jett: Very cool,Thank you.--Jett