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Originally Posted by GMB@BP
If you take out his Belmont, a race I have found generally to be a non predictor of future success what does his form look like?
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In the last 16 runnings of the Belmont Stakes, not including this year's edition, only 4 horses in the runner-up spot failed to win a subsequent graded stakes.
They were:
1) Smarty Jones - retired after the Belmont
2) Denis of Cork - retired after the Belmont
3) Dunkirk - retired after the Belmont
4) Oxbow - retired one start after the Belmont (4th in the Haskell)
The runners-up in the other 12 runnings included Medaglia D'Oro, Curlin, Paynter, Stay Thirsty, Ten Most Wanted, and Frosted.
Other also-rans from those Belmonts included:
Game On Dude (G1), First Dude (G1), War Emblem (G1), Perfect Drift (G1), Funny Cide (G1), Rock Hard Ten (G1), Purge (G1), Eddington (G1), Hard Spun (G1), Tiago (G1), Big Brown (G1), Tale of Ekati (G1), Macho Again (G1), Shackleford (G1), Mucho Macho Man (G1), Dullahan (G1), Will Take Charge (G1), California Chrome (G1), Keen Ice (G1), Mubtaahij (G1), Exaggerator (G1), and Seeking The Soul (G1).
