2024 Belmont Stakes Predictions, Picks For Triple Crown Race

Poor Mystik Dan, who won the race the odds said he would not, then dropped the one the numbers crunchers figured he could.Two-and-a-quarter lengths.The distance between Mystik Dan merely being in the field for Saturday’s Belmont Stakes or being a thoroughbred running for history this weekend was relatively small. That was the colt’s gap behind Preakness Stakes winner Seize the Grey.Mystik Dan, the Kentucky Derby winner, was most certainly game on a muddy track in the Preakness, there was just no closing kick as the winner went wire-to-wire. And while there is no shame in completing the exacta of a Triple Crown race, the raw numbers are passing judgement now.After posting a 100 Beyer Speed Figure in the Kentucky Derby, Mystik Dan went backward with a 97 in the Preakness.Perhaps it was …