They say females have better endurance.
by briandtw on Sunday, June 10th, 2007 at 09:52am
She came into the race trying to buck 102 years of history. Her trainer, despite over two dozen entries, had never won a triple Crown race. She was battling a horse that folks had started to label a “freak of nature” and who came off at almost even odds. She even stumbled out of the gate.
But the Belmont is a long race, especially when the pace is as slow as it was yesterday. And the boys gave Rags to Riches plenty of time to catch up with them, and then pass the lot at the end in a phenomenal neck-and-neck stretch run where she and Curlin traded leads multiple times. Despite the rather boring first half, that will be a Belmont Stakes to remember.