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With a short field and no Triple Crown on the line, Ron Flatter advises that it's difficult to find a good wager for Saturday's big race.

3.57 Promise Keeper   The bad news for Promise Keeper and France Go de Ina is that American Pharoah is the only horse since 2004 to win a 1½-mile Belmont with a dosage index higher than 3.00.   Finally, in the last 14 normal runnings of the Belmont (in other words, ignore last year), the only two winners that had also been in the Preakness were Triple Crown winners American Pharoah and Justify. That trend would seem to work against Rombauer, Midnight Bourbon, Keepmeinmind and France Go de Ina.   The message here is that a good, strong case may be made on behalf of most of the horses in th...

Good morning, it’s Monday, May 3, 2021. Over the weekend, Illinois Rep. Cheri Bustos became the latest swing district Democrat to announce her impending retirement. Then, Texas Democrats in a district southwest of Fort Worth splintered their vote, thereby botching any chance they had of picking up a House seat in a special election. In non-political news, a horse named Medina Spirit won the Kentucky Derby, a record seventh time trainer Bob Baffert has won the “Run for the Roses.” Baffert’s horse won in 2020, too, and with the same rider -- John Velazquez -- who was in the winner’s c...

With several bigger-name horses either bypassing or not qualifying for the Run for the Roses, Ron Flatter bemoans too much filler in the field at Churchill Downs.

  Trainers have said their 3-year-olds might be better suited to a shorter distance or a later date. In some cases, that might actually be true. It also might be true that they want no part of Essential Quality, now best-priced in Las Vegas futures as a 3-1 favorite. It could be that horsemen are conceding that this maturing crop of 2018 foals is thin.   Concert Tour was the latest big defection. Bob Baffert decided after a third-place finish in the Arkansas Derby that Gary and Mary West’s homebred by Street Sense was not training up to a level that would be ready for the prime time of Ch...