Anticlimactic Belmont Stakes

With no Triple Crown contender again this year, and the winners of the other two Triple Crown races, Barbaro and Bernardini, not even entered into today's race, the 138th Belmont Stakes, longest of the Triple Crown races at 1 1/2 miles, was just another horse race. Granted that there was an exciting finish and an unexpected winner, Jazil, finishing by 1 1/4 lengths in come from behind style, still something was missing....

Maybe next year we'll have a contender to root for.

Here's espn.com's reporting on the race.