![]() ![]() I am not saying that was only because he was in post 1 it could have happened from a different post, too. “We didn’t make that spot and he was shuffled back to 18th or 19th. “There was a critical point at the eighth pole going by the stands for the first time and he was this close to getting the position he wanted.” Pletcher said. were going to have to get a solid position early. The memo, in DI's words, disclosed an improper political agenda behind. If he was going to do some good in the Run for the Roses, Known Agenda and jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. that 'all known scientific evidence supports Darwinian evolution' as does. In the Kentucky Derby, he drew the dreaded rail. Known Agenda figures to be the best chance for Pletcher to get his fourth Belmont win. 7 when a filly was born at Glendalough Farm in Lexington. He has finished second six times and third with three other horses. Spendthrift Farms Known Agenda, the 2021 Florida Derby (G1) winner by Curlin, sired his first reported foal Jan. Of the 30 horses he has started, he has won the Belmont three times: Tapwrit (2017), Palace Malice (2013) and the filly, Rags to Riches (2007). Pletcher has had success in the final leg of the Triple Crown. These three would give Pletcher 33 Belmont Stakes horses, two more than another Hall of Famer, Nick Zito. ![]() If all three Pletcher horses get into the Belmont starting gate, it will make the 53-year-old Hall of Famer the all-time leader in horses started in the Belmont. Overtook, last seen finishing third in the Peter Pan (G3) on May 8, is 20-1. Calumet Farms’ Bourbonic, who won the Wood Memorial at odds of 72-1 on April 3, is 15-1 on the Belmont morning line. The other Pletcher horses are long shots. Known Agenda ran away from the field in the Florida Derby on Saturday - and might keep on going all the way to Churchill Downs to start the Triple Crown season. Known Agenda is the 6-1 fourth choice in the Belmont behind Essential Quality (2-1), Preakness winner Rombaeur (3-1) and Hot Rod Charlie (9-2). And he has been touting his hand that he is coming up to it ready to give it his best.” “I love the way he is training coming into it. “I think he is sitting on a very good race,” Pletcher said this week at Belmont. Five weeks later, Pletcher, who plays it close to the vest most of the time, is fairly gushing over what he has seen from Known Agenda. ![]() He might have faded from memory after he finished ninth in the Kentucky Derby. Elias Stables’ Known Agenda, the Florida Derby (G1) winner. Eddie Olczyk is well aware of the potentially perilous trip that awaits Known Agenda, who drew the unfavorable No. Anytime a horse is connected to Todd, yes, it's an advantage." "He runs a top-notch outfit and his horses all look great and they all run to the best of their abilities. "Todd is so experienced, and his horsemanship is an advantage," said trainer Doug O'Neill, who will saddle Hot Rod Charlie in the Belmont. They are the only horses in the race that are stabled here at Belmont Park. When the Belmont is run for the 153rd time at Belmont Park Saturday, three of the eight horses in the race will be from Pletcher’s barn. ![]()
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