Oaklawn Drive

[Nemer]

Belmont 2009

hour and a half from post time

wagers

WIN ---- 9 Miner's Escape

Exacta ----- 9 Miner's Escape over 2 Dunkirk

the 9 is going wire to wire

---easy lightly contested fractions @ 2fl and 4fl

---the 9 will be NO worse than second at those two calls and I forsee him actually in the lead,

---but the 6 Charitable Man could try also for the lead ... doesn't matter as the pace will be mostly unpressed by the remainder of the field who will be intent on stalking

---racing will be pretty slow even as far as 6fl when some of the stalkers will start trying to close up on the 9 and the 6

---the 9 will turn a turn of speed as he gets to the 8fl pole (1mi) and start to open more daylight as he hits the quarter pole

--- last sixteenth will be THE RACE

--- Miner's Edge holding on to the closing onslaught of 2 Dunkirk, 8 Flying Private, 1 Chocolate Candy, and the final kick of 7 Mine That Bird

I forecast that the final finish will be

9-2-7-1