Everyone simply must view the HEAD-ON provided by NYRA website before they take it down...viewing the head-on replay goes far in showing exactly how the uncoupled team effort of Restoring Hope, Noble Indy, and Justify led to the Baffert victory with Justify...you’ll see how the the team functioned to corral and pin early, then impede late while what looks like a purposeful dropping completely out of it of the two pretenders...
Especially important to see is the conversation taking place between Javy and Florent at the top of the stretch, at about the 6:50 minute point in the replay, well before the race was completely over...completely distracted from riding their mounts,talking to each other, and looking into the infield, presumably at big screens, probably to see if Justify indeed had held on...never seen anything quite like this before, and is really quite unsettling for me...seems really beyond bad optics in my opinion...
https://www.nyra.com/belmont/racing/replays
