139th Belmont Stakes will be ran on Saturday, June 9th at 5:00pm EST. shown live on ABC. 

This year the Belmont Stakes has been disredarded in some aspects because of the lack of popular runners in the field.  This year there will only be 7 ponies to pick from and Kentucky Derby winner Street Sense will not be one of them.  The reports are vague but it seems that owner Jim Tafel had decided after the Preakness that without the chance of the Triple Crown that it would not be worth entering the last leg, in fact I don’t blame him as he has just sold the rights to breed his Kentucky Derby Champion to a middle eastern Sheikh who owns Darley Stud Farm, owners of numerour high profile race horses. 

So without Street Sense to choose from, Curlin has become the favorite with Hard Spun right behind him.  But before you go and jump on the favorite lets consider a few things: 

1. This is the longest leg of the Triple Crown at 1.5 miles long,  the race will not be won by a sprinter, it just won’t happen.  Serious strategy changes will have to be made by the jockeys to gage their horses down the stretch.

2. Field of 7 horses, pole position will have absolutley nothing to do with the horses chances, there will be no one to run into, in fact the horses might forget they are racing due to lack opponents….Just kidding.

3. Many times a jockey fails to hit the gas at the appropriate time and miscalculates his horses stamina.  It happens to the best of them.

So my point is, is that this race because of the length and small field is really open to anyone and if you do your homework on this try to profile a horse that has been known to finish top 3 in longer distance tracks, they will be more conditioned and already have a rythem to their racing as opposed to a horse that likes to sprint and will have to tweak his rythem to accomodate the longer track.

Heres current live lines listed in the sportsbook(*note lines will be constantly changing):

1. Imawildandcrazyguy +2000
2. Tiago +1000
3. Curlin -120
4. C P West +1200
5. Slews Tizzy +2000
6. Hard Spun +250
7. Rags to Riches +300

Personally I like C P West to win, good value at +1200 plus hes trained by the great Nick Zito. Whats your Pick?

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