Belmont Day

The RR Blog cards stacked today in the Dale Romans bandwagon with my choice of Shackelford-- our wayward fat uncle leading the charge up Hamburger Hill analogy. Justify by pointing out with 10 fat uncles training the Belmont you pick your poison.

The way I read the scuttlebutt coming from various sources Romans has reformed somewhat his former irrational training into a more physical approach, and possibly Romans learned something from training First Dude through the TC races a year or so back. There is some evidence for this respect Shackelford in the horse's appearance and some direct statements that S has engaged some 2 mile gallops and done some 2 min. licking etc. Any vestige of actual serious training catches our eyes around here!

Can Asmussen be ignored in the "pick the best trainer" scenario particularly since I really liked Nehro's Derby performance and appearance. In final analysis have questions that Nehro's immediate Belmont pre-race prep a little overly soft, and also that Shakelford eyeball to eyeball might be the better horse. Can S get the distance? But, that's the same Q for all of these in terms of their prep.

Training:

Fri. June 10: Off. Floods in S. KC but never a drop north at the farm. Drout this summer possibly.