I usually take the day after Kentucky Derby off, but I did take a look at the Belmont card for Sunday. I may or may not play – I put a lot of time and effort into the Derby, maybe 50 hours or so researching pedigree, watching replays, and making calculations – and while you might argue it was pretty formful, I identified four “A” horses and three of them made up the trifecta. But that is the point of the hard work – to come up with the likely winners. It certainly can’t be helped that they didn’t happen to be Commanding Curve (I still firmly believe that horse was nowhere near good enough to finish second – a total fluke). But if there was a long price that had a chance to be in the verticals, I might have had it. As I often say, if the trifecta pays $173, the most you can collect on a winning trifecta ticket is $173. Every other combination is just a losing ticket. Here are the numbers for BEL for Sunday.
