Trainer John Shirreffs added, "We were very happy to hit the board in the race. We were very pleased with the effort. If you know anything about Pleasant Taps, they don't start getting good until their four-year-old year. This was a big step for him. He demonstrated that he had the class, and with physical talent and maturity, he is just going to get better."
2007 Belmont Stakes Results
By Cindy Pierson Dulay, About.com Guide
Jockey Mike Smith said, "They were crawling and you want to move early but I was bottled up
inside. I wanted to move, but I couldn't. I had to wait for someone else
to move. I couldn't really get out. They were crawling and then they were quickening so fast,
that I had to wait for Curlin to make me a spot and we stayed on. It was
just a great horse race."
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- Rags to Riches stumbles at the start
- The stretch run
- Second place finisher Curlin
- Third place finisher Tiago
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