Can Street Sense put some SENSE back in the 2007 Belmont Stakes?

For Street Sense, the Triple Crown was not to be won this year.

Carl Nafzger, trainer of the new 2007 Derby champ, Street Sense, is disappointed that their road for the Triple Crown took an abrupt exit at the Pimlico Race Course.

The way Curlin barely edged Street Sense was specifically painful for Nafzger, after all, his horse did took the lead down the stretch at the 2007 Preakness Stakes only to be overtaken by the eventual Preakness Stakes champion.

When he saw how far behind his Street Sense was to Curlin down the stretch and how close Curlin was to winning the second leg of the 2007 Triple Crown series, he knew then that his quest for horse racing’s Holy Grail was over even before they can prepare for the 2007 Belmont Stakes.

At first he called the defeat ‘’heartbreaking,'’ lamenting, ‘’We had Curlin. We should have never let him come back and get us.'’

‘’My horse ran great. I got outran. That’s horse racing,'’ Carl Nafzger said. ‘’If you can’t enjoy watching a $5,000 claimer give you 110 percent, you shouldn’t be in the horse business.'’

‘’Maybe he gave me 105. But Curlin (gave) 110. You have to enjoy watching Curlin run,'’ Nafzger adds.

‘’I thought it was all over. When you open up a lead and have two lengths of daylight, you’re supposed to win the horse race. Other horses wouldn’t have never tried that last kick like Curlin did.'’

Will Carl Nafzger see his Street Sense win the last leg of the Triple Crown series at the 2007 Belmont Stakes? Visit OddsHQ for more horse race betting odds and the best lines in some of the biggest sporting events today.

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Should we be proud of Barry Bonds' 756 homeruns?

If you caught Barry Bonds' record-breaking 756th home run, would you keep it or would you throw it away?

Some people are saying that if they catch Bonds' 756th home run ball, they'd throw it back. They think that by throwing the 756 Bonds ball back, it'll be in protest to everything MLB Baseball allowed Barry Bonds to do. Some people even think that by throwing it back, it'll be for the honor of Hank Aaron.

Do these guys know that this ball could be worth millions and millions of dollars? After all, it will hold the record for most home runs in American baseball.

Throwing the 756th home run baseball back just to see how will the San Francisco Giants star react is just plain ridiculous.

Sure, Bonds could've used steroids to earn him the 756 home runs but a record is STILL a record and a baseball with that piece of baseball history is still precious.

Is throwing Bonds' 756th home run ball the political exclamation point of a sporting century?

Is that one guy who'll throw Barry Bonds' record-breaking home run baseball back stamp indelible pleasure on the very story we obviously just can't get enough of?

The answer to that is a resounding NO.

Who will win the 2007 MLB World Series Championship? Bodog has the odds.

New York Yankees 7/2

Boston Red Sox 9/1

Detroit Tigers 5/1

St. Louis Cardinals 9/1

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Hard Spun to win the 2007 Preakness Stakes?

Hard Spun will be going all out for the 2007 Preakness Stakes and stop Street Sense's Triple Crown dream.

Round two of the race for the Triple Crown will be at the Pimlico Race Course when the 2007 Preakness Stakes take center stage. And when you speak of Pimlico, one man is king.

Mario Pino. He had 11,037 mounts at the Pimlico Race Course and has now won 1,767 times. He will be aboard Hard Spun once it's time to bust the gates open again and with his success at the Pimlico Race Course, this could be the first time people will start talking about the man instead of the colt.

Of course, Mario Pino NEEDS to win the 2007 Preakness Stakes first and despite coming THAT close from winning the recently held Kentucky Derby, Mario Pino and Hard Spun still look like one formidable combination to upset this year's Kentucky Derby champ, Street Sense.

To make things even more interesting, Calvin Borel may have won the 2007 Kentucky Derby NOT because of Street Sense but simply because he knows the Kentucky Derby track at Churchill Downs more than the rest of the field.

NOW, round two of the race for the Triple Crown will be in Mario Pino's yard, Pimlico, and of course, Pino feels confident of winning the 2007 Preakness Stakes.

''I'm familiar with the track and things like when the turns come up,'' Pino said this week. ''I think Calvin had somewhat of an edge at Churchill and it helped him give that horse a perfect ride. He knew little things about Churchill and I know little things about Pimlico.''

Can Mario Pino ride Hard Spun to win the 2007 Preakness Stakes? Who will win the second leg of the race for the Triple Crown? Bodog has the odds.

Hard Spun 5/2

Street Sense 5/4

Curlin 7/2

King of the Roxy 15/1

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