Questionable move by Fox Sports. They are using Tom Durkin – who was legendary. However, he retired in 2014 – that is tough stepping up after almost 10 years!
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I’m not sure about Durkin–kept calling So High as Oh Say in the Manhattan.
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I’m not thrilled with it, but far better than NBC w/the extreme celebrity coverage! Tom Amoss and Mike Smith are quite good, I think. I agree that I would like the whole post parade – I’ll bet they do that for the Belmont.
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If you want mostly coverage of the horses and races and have cable, FS1 is where to watch for sure. I just thought Fox was our only option, I didn’t realize they’d be doing ‘regular’ coverage as well as the Fox coverage.
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Oh my, Tapit Trice was showing everyone that he is a boy horse on national TV.
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Almost time! Hoping for a great, safe race. Reported crowd is 48,000 in a non- TC year. Far cry from the organized chaos when I was there in 2014 (130,000) and 2015 (90,000).
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Yayyy!!!
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I’m totally ok with the ending.
Well done to Arcangelo & all of his connections.
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The Fox sound sucks. I couldn’t hear a word the commentators and track announcer were saying.
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Jena Antonucci must be on cloud 9. First female trainer to win the Belmont.
“If you can’t find a seat at the table, make your own table.” YES MA’AM Jena!
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They’re showing a deadheat for 4th & 5th place between Hit Show & Angel of Empire.
Now the excuses for Forte will begin 
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I had to turn on the closed captions, and they suck.
Congratulations to Jena Antonucci, Javier Castellano, and Arcangelo.
The commentary was so bad I have no idea about second and third. I thought my cable was going to go off again, but it didn’t. Fortunately, FS1 actually mentioned the order of finish. Fox claims they had their A-team at the race, I don’t want to know how bad the B-team would have been. FS1-Fox Sports channel had great sound, so I don’t know why the Fox channel didn’t.
1st------------Arcangelo
2nd-----------Forte
3rd-----------Tappit Trice
I’m just glad they all came back safely.
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Most importantly, it looks like everyone came back safely.
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Fox needs to fire whatever sound engineer is working this broadcast! All the background stuff is drowning out the actual commentary.
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I’d be surprised to hear any whiny excuses from Forte’s team as that’s not really how they roll. He’s had a weird five weeks, brought to peak condition for the Derby before being told to stay home and training hiccups from the foot bruise. The Belmont is a pretty stiff test and second isn’t bad given his recent history.
I wondered if he hadn’t peaked in Florida, myself, given that he had to run pretty hard to get the FL Derby win. But it’s a question we’ll never know the answer to.
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Great race. I couldn’t be happier for Archangelo’s connections, and am relieved that everyone came home safe.
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I am going to use this.
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I should have clarified…
I didn’t mean from excuses from team Forte.
I meant from spectators, armchair trainers, etc. Heck even Mike Smith was making excuses for Forte right after the race.
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He had a tough row to hoe. He did well, all considered! If an underdog was going to take it – I’m so glad it was this team!
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Everyone has an automatic excuse for the Belmont: the race is freakin’ long. 
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