Impact of Belmont Stakes Distance Change on Betting
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00:00It's a mile and a quarter.
00:04It's not a mile and a half.
00:06How does it change the betting angle for people because I've been to the Belmont 50 times
00:12and it's a mother load that race, especially in the heat.
00:17And I've been there and seen it.
00:20The spa is a lot different.
00:22They have better restaurants up there.
00:24They have great, great parties up there.
00:26But the Belmont track itself is way brutal compared to this.
00:30Yeah, it's a much shorter race, obviously.
00:34Normally the Belmont's a mile and a half.
00:36It's only a mile and a quarter.
00:38As a betting guy, when you're looking at the Belmont stakes, it's usually a lot of question
00:42marks because you don't know who can handle that distance.
00:45Most of the horses have never run it before and they'll never run it again in the vast
00:50majority of cases.
00:52This year we have a little more handle.
00:53There's a lot of horses coming back from the Kentucky Derby.
00:56The horses have run close to the distance.
00:58So it's more like a normal race than a typical Belmont stakes when it's run down state.