Belmont Stakes Betting - Tale of Ekati a Major Player

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The Barclay Tagg runner Tale of Ekati was one of the top two-year olds in the nation last year. In fact out of all of the horses running in the last leg of the Triple Crown, the 2008 Belmont Stakes, Tale of Ekati is the only horse to have run in last year’s Breeders Cup Juvenile.

Tale of Ekati finished a non-threatening fourth in that race 17 ½ lengths behind eventual 2-year old champion War Pass.

Going into his 3-year old season, Tale of Ekati was definitely one of the 3-year olds that online racebook fans were watching closely. Because his trainer is Barclay Tagg, the man who campaigned Funny Cide to Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes victories in 2003, there was no question that Tale of Ekati would improve from his 2 to 3 year old seasons. How much was what everybody wondered.

Well, in his first three races so far this year, Tale of Ekati doesn’t appear to have improved all that much. In his first race in 2008, Tale of Ekati lost by 6 ½ lengths to early Kentucky Derby future book favorite, Pyro, in the Grade II Louisiana Derby. In his second race of 2008, Tale of Ekati actually beat the before mentioned War Pass by ½ a length. In his third race of 2008, the Kentucky Derby, Tale of Ekati drifted out and finished a non-threatening fourth losing by 11 lengths to Big Brown.

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