2020 galloping Belmont Stakes thread

[HanSenSE]

Forgot it was today until I saw it in the paper. Ladies and gentlemen, start your horses!

 

[Noholesinone]

No fans allowed. Not even the horse's owners are permitted to attend. The NYRA inexplicably shortened the distance to a mile and an eighth. After today, the horses have two and a half months to get ready for the second leg of the grueling Triple Crown.

 

[Spartan Squad]

No fans allowed. Not even the horse's owners are permitted to attend. The NYRA inexplicably shortened the distance to a mile and an eighth. After today, the horses have two and a half months to get ready for the second leg of the grueling Triple Crown.

The explanation I heard was with the shutdown preventing many of the horses from getting ready to run longer distances, they opted to slightly shorten the race.

 

[Severian]

Wow. I forgot this was even happening.

 

[garrow]

Congrats Tiz the Law which ran ahead of ....and Order down the stretch.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

Who beat?

 

[Deskgrunt50]

They all fought... but Law won.

 

[Neutral Corner]

/yawn

 

[Michael_ Gee]

One thing I thought was cool. With no fans, the mics picked up the sounds of the hoofbeats.