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Another one of the many betting longshots for your Belmont Stakes picks is Anak Nakal. He is the winner of the Kentucky Jockey Club at Churchill Downs in November 07.He finished a dismal 8th in the Fountain of Youth at Gulfstream Park and disappointed once again with a 7th place finish in the Rebel Stakes at Oaklawn. Anak Nakal then tried again in the Wood Memorial at Aqueduct and finished 5th. Early morning betting odds at BodogLife.com for the Belmont Stakes shows Anak Nakal at a huge 40 to 1 longshot for the 140th running of the Belmont Stakes.
Anak Nakal broke his maiden first time out going seven furlongs at Belmont Park on Sept. 28, timed in 1:23.25. He won by a length after closing from eighth and altering his course in the stretch. Under Julien Leparoux, Anak Nakal had a runner-up effort to the very strong Etched. On good dirt, Anak Nakal was beaten 6 1/2 lengths to a time of 1:36.96 going one turn. His recent race was the Kentucky Derby where he finished 7th at 53 to 1. He was outrun into the first turn and forced 4 wide, advanced 7 wide after seven furlongs and improved his position, but wasn't a threat.
Piloting Anak Nakal will be Jockey Julien Leparoux. Julien hit the board three times in the 2007 Breeders' Cup, with his first winner, Nownownow, in the Juvenile Turf. Lepreoux also holds the Eclipse Award as outstanding apprentice jockey. He also had lead riding titles at Turfway Park, Churchill Downs and Keeneland Race Course in 2006.
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Big Brown, with Kent Desormeaux up, will come out of the No. 1 post position in his attempt to become the first horse in 30 years to win the Triple Crown.
(Rob Carr/Associated Press)
Big Brown will begin his bid to become the first horse to win the Triple Crown in 30 years by breaking from the No. 1 post in the Belmont Stakes on Saturday at New York.
The Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner was drawn into the inside position against nine rivals Wednesday. Big Brown is listed at 2-5 odds for the grueling 1½-mile race.
“I just can’t see a post position getting him beat,” trainer Rick Dutrow Jr. said of Big Brown. “As long as we break good, I can see us getting a good trip.
“There is not a lot of speed in the race. If we need our horse early on, he’ll be there for us.”
Big Brown is 5-0, winning those races by a combined 39 lengths.
His expected main challenger, Japanese-bred Casino Drive, will start from the No. 5 post and as of Wednesday was a 7-2 second choice on the morning line. He and Big Brown are the only horses with single-digit odds.
Canadian-owned Tale of Ekati, fourth in the Kentucky Derby and held out of the Preakness, comes out of the seven spot.
Denis of Cork was listed as the 12-1 third choice. He rallied from 20th to finish third in the Derby and will start in post four.
Other entries include a pair of Nick Zito-saddled 30-1 shots — Da’Tara and Anak Nakal, the latter finishing seventh in the Derby.
Guadalcanal was a surprise late entry. The colt is winless in five starts for owner-trainer Fred Seitz, but was second by a nose while going the Belmont distance of 1½ miles in his last start on turf at Churchill Downs, so has shown strength.

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I can’t really blame any online racebook or horse betting fans who weren’t watching any other horse in the 2008 Preakness Stakes besides Big Brown. After all, we were all at the mercy of the NBC Network production team that kept their cameras squarely on the Kentucky Derby winner.
It was difficult to see what any other horse in the race was doing. But if we had been paying attention to those horses other then Big Brown we might have seen that Macho Again, was being steadied at the ¼ pole. We might have seen that Macho Again was going five wide around the turn. We might have seen that Macho Again was moving like a freight train through the lane, not giving up even though Big Brown was turning into a speck of dust in front of him, fighting with every breath to turn Big Brown’s Preakness romp into a real horse race.
Macho Again ended up finishing second in the Preakness Stakes, beating Icabad Crane by a quarter of a length. Of course, Big Brown was awesome in the Preakness, but Macho Again, by just showing how incredibly big his heart was, was just as awesome…on a much smaller scale, of course.
Did Macho Again’s incredibly tough Preakness run set him up for a more serious race in the Belmont Stakes? Maybe not. Maybe Macho Again is just a cheap horse with a big heart.
Then again, maybe it did. I’ll tell you one thing, at the BetUS online future book odds of 40 to 1, I have to take Macho Again seriously.
His father, Macho Uno, won the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile. His grandfather, Holy Bull, is one of the greatest horses I have ever seen step foot onto a racetrack. Holy Bull was done in during his Kentucky Derby race by a muddy Churchill Downs racing strip. Macho Again didn’t even run in the Kentucky Derby.

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