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Message: [QUOTE="IthacaBarrel, post: 4264538, member: 363"] I don't see them moving it anytime soon or cutting the distance of the Belmont. The track is 1.5 miles and it's one loop around the damn track. Just my 2 cents but the Travers has continued to increase in stature and trainers look at the Derby, Belmont, Haskell, Travers as more viable than running the gauntlet of the Triple Crown and praying you got something left later in the summer. The Haskell/ Travers timing can be tricky too. Horses aren't different than any other modern day athlete, "load management" can be very frustrating for fans. If I had a horse than ran decent in the derby but didn't win and I thought they could get the distance of the Belmont, I would run there, skip Preakness and then get ready for Saratoga. Or I would run in the preakness and then slow down skip Belmont and get ready for the Jim Dandy/ Travers run. The super trainers have horses for all of the races and just reload the mid size to smaller guy is going to protect the horse because they don't come around all that often. the Belmont Day card is easily one of the top 3 best cards of the year with the Met Mile as well. NYRA has created a great weekend around it and then another great card right before they move to Saratoga, which I believe they call Stars and Stripes day around 4th of July. Breeder's Cup Saturday, KY Derby and then the card on Belmont Day which to me other than the Breeders Cup Saturday the best betting day of the year. You can throw in a few others but they are all up in Saratoga Always a few phonies in the Belmont though, one pace horses that finish mid pack in the derby usually are one pace horses that finish mid pack in the Belmont as well. You still need some speed ( Palace Malice) or a hell of a closing kick. You need to make a move at some point [/QUOTE]

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