Belmont

One of better Belmonts shaping up maybe.  Vid works show on DRF Belmont site.  Interesting to me that things that have been noted here and there by such as Ivers, Bill Pressey , and on this site are starting to happen.  They're doing their breezing on Sunday now days--6 days out.  Former religiosity required final breezes to be 7 days out, or, on east coast 9 days out.  Can 5 day out breezing be far off?

And, they're going longer with the Plecher style gallop outs.  More horses  now days  work every 7 days.  There are a few holds outs of course.  Can e.g. Freedom Child doing his works in high :13s compete on Sat at speed.  Doubtful imo.  Will see

I watched the works and in terms of what was asked one of the least impressive was by Orb.  Unsurprising.  Traditional east coast trainer. Probably thinks his horse is tired from Orb's strenuous Preakness.  They can never get over these mental blocks.  Oh, my horse ate up great after the race and was bouncing all over the shed row the next morning.  Two days later this becomes:  you want to give 'em plenty of rest  between races , let 'em recover.

I have predicted in a few years we'll be worrying about doing too much with horses instead of too little.  Exercise physiology will kick in at some point.

Training:
#148 is back at it. #7 managed somehow to seriously scape lots of skin off under his front arm pits and just under front of his chest.  We're getting lucky these days.  Horse impaled himself on something and just comes out of it with scrapes.  Has caused me to confine exercise to riderless for a couple of days.  The two ran lightly together.  Nice to have #148's energy back.  After tomorrow's important court hearing I'll be free to consider what to do with these two.