Today at Belmont Park race track

Elmont, N.Y. - We have seen this before. The 12-Furlong Belmont Park, the longest, widest track in the world, is unlike any other. Experience counts. Discount to its importance in Belmont Park are doomed to lose.

"I go with him to drive, so confident. That is why winning the race because riding with confidence," said Calvin Borel in the days before the Saturday of the 141st Belmont Stakes.

Trust is an admirable quality. Excess is the Mother of the failure.

Borel mine ensures that attract birds and Belmont bettors responded by sending the gelding, 50-1, when he won the Derby five weeks, the door 6-5 in the final leg of the Triple Crown under a driver's attempt, the first to sweep the series in two horses.

Borel, in fact, bird mine went with absolute confidence and the gelding responded with a valiant effort. Borel I needed was a map.

An early transition to Belmont Park is almost always fatal.

Kent Desormeaux who rode the birds in the summer to an upset victory at 141 Belmont, lesson learned that in 1998, when a similar move on the issue of a mine, which left Real Quiet birds one step behind the Triple Crown and the Victory Gallop the winner circle. Stewart Elliott, Smarty Jones, referred to early in the 2004 Belmont, the Triple Crown left in the half-mile pole, when he little to keep Birdstone, Mr. Belmont, the winner of this year, as well as favorite hits.

Borel is very familiar with Churchill Downs, where his bold, rail-skimming ride in the Derby gelding has won the district and finally conquered the hearts of the nation. Pimlico, where the brilliant filly Raquel Alexandra Borel rode to victory in the Preakness at the expense of me that bird, the swift closing runner-up in Baltimore, is the standard problem of the one lane miles, more than Churchill, but essentially the same configuration.

Belmont Park, New York is different. It rewards and punishes the arrogance prepared.

Borel spent the whole week in New York, without mounting a race before the Belmont on Saturday, the 11th the map, a mistake for him and my birds pay a high price. The driver appeared on Late Night with David Letterman, visited the New York Stock Exchange and the Empire State Building, has some sights, maybe a little shopping. But his representatives are not aimed at the Belmont, where he assembled Borel some horses in the past and never won a race.

Confidence alone will not work at Belmont Park are in the best horse, with a clear trip enjoyed Borel is not enough to miscalculation born of unfamiliarity with this unique course.

"I do not think [Bird mine] can lose," said Desormeaux, who has a real cost, and a quiet place in history as an accessory in the New York jockey colony. "But things happen like they did. It is quite different, the soil here in Belmont. They call him Big Sandy for nothing."

Last early, as expected, mine to get horses on the birds back stretch six Furlong has not yet been executed, will be an unexpectedly strong pace of Dunkirk and flew in the back. Borel won the Derby asked to create a movement that still panting Pegasus. Even the immortal Secretariat Ron Turcotte reserved on the point that the mine had started to his birds. Office open 31 Length and a course record at Belmont has been threatened since 1973.

A period of horses belonging to the strike the quarter with a pole in the middle are almost inevitably move towards Belmont defeat and mines, the birds had no answer to a crucial meeting of the summer birds, the ninth with a 10 half a mile run to leave and I was already sent early risers in search of leaders. The winner of the Derby was so little in the sixteenth to the last mile is not before the pacemaker, which ended with the decision to be taken into account, and the birds that pass over the final meters and finished second.