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Originally Posted by jay68802

His class has been tested, 4 times, he passed all of them. In his allowance race he broke slow, did not get the lead, rated and won the race late. In the Derby he dueled through fast fractions and no one caught him. In the Preakness he again went head to head for the lead, and won despite not being the best physically, showing the most important part, heart. And in the Belmont, for a lot of reasons no one challenged him, but no one made up ground on him in the stretch, either. In other word's, he established himself as the dominant horse and no on challenge that. The class is there, no question about that.

The biggest reason he wasn't challenged in the Belmont is he went too fast. Even as it was he sapped the rest of the field that laid close to him. The runner-up came from far back of even the next-to-last horse.