Race day for the 2022 Belmont Stakes brings the predictable spike in the volume and clarity of what the money says. It’s a diplomatic way of saying that for the top tier of the cast of characters vying for the $1.5 million purse — the white-hot best-boy-in-training We the People, the somewhat frustrated Irish slugger Mo Donegal, and the 80-1 Derby phenom Rich Strike — the questions have only been sharpened.
Plenty of room out there on the ultra-taxing Big Sandy, as the track has aptly and hilariously been nicknamed by the thousands of horsemen whose mounts its long turns and sticky surface it has bested.
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