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BALTIMORE - The dry weather continues. For the 32nd true year — tackingyet one some-more year in the ongoing jot down of Triple Crown being meaningless or senseless — there will be no brush of racings majority desired prize.
The usually equine who could have headed to the Jun 5 Belmont Stakes with a possibility at the Triple Crown was Super Saver, the Kentucky Derby leader who was a 19-10 the one preferred when a margin of twelve 3-year-olds went postward Saturday in the 135th Preakness at Pimlico. But it became painfully strong as the margin neared the entertain stick that this was not to be his day.
Super Saver pennyless firmly and appeared gentle when giving closest follow to front-running First Dude down the widen the initial time and in to the far spin of the 1 3/16-mile race. But distinct in the May 1 Derby, when Super Saver used a solid shutting kickhis proceed to feat underneath Calvin Borel, he was flat, and a overflow of rivals engulfed him once the genuine using began. He wound up eighth, knocked about eleven 1/2 lengths by the winning Lookin At Lucky, permitting Affirmed in 1978 to sojourn the majority new Triple Crown winner.
"I had a undiluted trip," Borel told NBC Sports afterward. "He only came up a small empty. He ran so big in the Derby. ... I"m not troubled with the horse, hold me. It happens. Its equine racing."
Trainer Todd Pletcher, who finished his own Derby dry weather when Super Saver triumphed dual weeks ago, pronounced the comparatively short two-week camber in in between races expected was a factor.
"Coming off a outrageous bid in the Derby, the dual weeks was only as well short," he said.
Pletcher, who additionally sent out Aikenite to a 10th-place finish Saturday, pronounced he knew mid by the far spin that Super Saver was in trouble.
"When they went to the far turn, you could see Calvin kind of squeezed him and was asking him to go get that equine [First Dude]," he said. "He only couldnt do it. He hung in there, he kept fighting. Just behind a small discerning for him. Now we"ve got time to regroup and come behind for a big summer."
The better for Super Saver obviously leaves the Belmont but the play it binds when a Triple Crown isthe line. Since Affirmed, eleven horses have won the Derby and Preakness prior to being denied in the Belmont, the ultimate being Big Brown in 2008.
The 32-year dry weather is the longest given the Triple Crown became famous as a array in the 1930s, with the prior longest being the 25-year opening in in between Citation (1948) and Secretariat (1973). There have been eleven Triple Crown winners commencement with Sir Barton in 1919.
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