Postby TJ » Mon May 28, 2018 5:22 am
On this Memorial Day 5/28 the action picked up for the Belmont Stakes contenders training at Churchill Downs.:
Justify...looked great today with Bob Baffert on hand to watch his star pupil, Justify picked up the the pace of his gallop close to a two-minute lick along the way. Looks like a breeze will be coming up tomorrow or Wednesday at the latest.
Bravazo and Ten Fold were only touched on during the morning show, either they didn't do much or they trained earlier before the Belmont Stakes training window? It's obvious both should have galloped today even though we did't get to see it?
Free Drop Billy...worked a strong 5/8ths for Dale Romans. It will be this work that Romans will assess in order to make his decision whether to run in the Belmont Stakes. From what I saw, he looked fantastic in a powerful performance that has to give Free Drop Billy the green light to run in the Belmont. Free Drop Billy looked strong throughout in fractions of 12.3, 23.4, 35.3, 47, 59.3 and galloped out "strong and long" getting 3/4's in 1:12, 7/8ths in 1:25.1 and pulled up the mile in 1:39.4. Just a super, super move!
Will post the video when and if they put it online. TJ