1.   Handicappers scoffed at the idea of running a colt whose previous handlers had planned to pass up the Derby and run in the Preakness in two weeks.

2.   The trainer had an obligation to run his colt in the Belmont and back up his words.

3.   This time, they are running the colts in the seventh race and the fillies in the eighth.

4.   He cut the deal with owner Russell Reineman, who had no plans to run the colt in the Derby.